Curve Balls, Boomerangs, UFOs, and all other things that don't fly straight.

"'Wait on the Lord' is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.” -J.I. Packer

We'd rather have already been to Ghana. We'd rather know that we'll be headed to pick up some precious cargo in 3, 6, or 9 months from now. We'd rather use on of Mac's patented "Magic, Magic, Green Light!" choruses to get things moving. Rather, in the space of a week, and with one powerful pronouncement, the Prime Minister has effectively shut down international adoptions in Ghana. --------Zap------- So Bry and I and Mac and Newt will do the same thing that many other adopting families have done...we'll wait patiently. And with patience we'll wait because every Christian waits patiently. We've read the Psalms, and we know that anyone who knows the Lord, already knows that what he is doing is marvelous.

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PROBLEM:
Adoption in Ghana has been shut down for restructuring of Governmental offices and procedures. Hopefully, the prime minister is doing something noble, it's hard to get enough of the news to know for sure. What we do know is that the movement of other families that we wrote about last time, was well-grounded. 

ANSWER/SOLUTION:
We're now on a waitlist for both Ghana adoptions and Ethiopian adoptions. Our Agency has been good to work with and has made the holding pattern pretty easy. We're #7 on Ghana, #49 on Ethiopia's waitlists. Our wait time with Ethiopia is approximately 10 months from last week if everything happened smoothly. Ethiopia will be a little more expensive, but we've been told that most of our funds toward Ghana will be able to be used for Ethiopia, which is encouraging. We're staying on Ghana, just in case something would change in the next couple of months, but we expect that Ethiopia is our most likely path to tread.

CONCLUSION:
So that's us...waiting...patiently.