When Love Takes You in......

Over the past few weeks of waiting our family has discovered several songs about adoption and they can regularly be heard playing at our house and in our cars. These songs remind us over and over that God has called us to love the fatherless and how He loves them even more than we can begin to imagine. Every time I listen to When Love Take You In by Stephen Curtis Chapman-I cry thinking of the children all over the world that long to have a loving home. Children who each night cry going to sleep as they long for the love of a mom and dad. I pray each day around lunch time- as our children go to sleep in Ethiopia- that they will feel comfort in the fact that we are soon coming to bring them home. As they share a bunk bed with 8 kids I pray that God will comfort them in a way that only He can. That He will hold them close and that they will know that they are loved. 

When Love Takes You In

I know you’ve heard the stories 
But they all sound too good to be true 
You’ve heard about a place called home 
But there doesn’t seem to be one for you 
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep 
And drift off to a distant dream

Where love takes you in and everything changes 
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart 
When love takes you home and says you belong here 
The loneliness ends and a new life begins 
When love takes you in

And somewhere while you’re sleeping 
Someone else is dreaming too 
Counting down the days until 
They hold you close and say I love you 
And like the rain that falls into the sea 
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be

When love takes you in everything changes 
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart

And this love will never let you go 
There is nothing that could ever
cause this love to lose its hold

When love takes you in everything changes 
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart 
When love takes you home and says you belong here 
The loneliness ends and a new life begins 
When love takes you in it takes you in for good 
When love takes you in

Our prayer is that they both know "while you're sleeping- Someone else is dreaming too- Counting down the days until they hold you close and say I love you". We so long to hold our precious son and daughter and let them know that we love them, with an unconditional love that only comes from our Father. A love that will never let them go and that will change their lives for forever.

Tizita and Geremew- You mom loves you with an unexplainable love and longing. I can't wait until I can hold you close and get to tell you that I love you. I long for your daddy to get to pick you up and swing you around! I can't wait to introduce you to four of the most amazing kids in the world that are your sisters and your brother. We are going to have so much fun- and in the times that are not so much fun we will hold tightly to each other and to our Father. I long to have you home with us- for you to know that Love has taken you in and that everything has changed! I will be dreaming while you are sleeping- You are loved! Mom