Our Appointment Today

We had our appointment today at the SDA and it went well. The first 40 minutes was difficult because they show you all of the sick children available. My heart ached with every page turned and a different little girl that will never be adopted because of circumstances out of her control. I wish our life was different so that I could adopt one of them and give her the love she will never receive. It’s not fair to these children, they never asked to be sick or have a severe disability. It’s us as humans that fall into sin that allow this to happen.

After seeing the many files of children that we were not approved for, we came across a little girl named Iryna. She is 8 years old and cute as a button. Her file stated that she has a delay and possible epilepsy because of a seizure she had a year and a half ago. She has not had one since but they still monitor it. Our facilitator tried calling the orphanage but they were not available to talk at that moment. During that time, a different facilitator of a family adopting had called and stated that the child they accepted a referral for the day before, they no longer wanted to visit. So the director showed us her file and gave us the information about her. She was medically healthy but had lived with her grandmother her whole life and had no limits. She was not taught how to care for herself and had a social delay. As we were considering to visit her, the other facilitator called back and stated that they changed their mind again and wanted to visit the child. As conversation was going back and forth on who had the right to see this little girl, Iryna’s new orphanage director called and gave us her information. She stated that other than her seizure and slight delay, she was a very sweet little girl and loved to help others. Since Iryna had turned 8 in the middle of the year, she stayed at the younger orphanage and was just transferred a couple days ago. Her old orphanage director called our facilitator and told her that when she was being transferred, she cried asking not to leave because all she wanted was a mommy and daddy and to be a part of a family. I looked at Shawn and said “Here is our whisper from God”. I really feel that this is our child God has chosen for us. We will be taking a 12 hour train ride tomorrow evening to her region and will be visiting with her on Friday. We are so close!!