S, not C

Some names here sound like they should start with a C and really start with an S.  Some names have always ended in S until you go to the bank and they open your account with your name ending with a Z.  People don’t know how to spell…

This time it was me… our sweet girl who came from Tegucigalpa is actually an S, not a C, which actually makes life way less confusing since we already have a C in the house!

Anyway, after spending a few days with her I wanted to give you an update.  First of all, I am so thankful for our friend Ericka who is involved with the Micah Project in Tegucigalpa and has a such a precious heart to help people in need.  She brought S up here this week and was just a shoulder for her lean on.

S loves it.  She wants to come.  We went to the doctor and the baby is growing.  I heard a baby’s heartbeat for the first time and I was super excited :)  S is healthy, although very underweight.  She has been really sick, but we got some prenatal vitamins, medicine for the nausea, and we ate lots of veggies!  She stayed the night with the girls at the house and I’m pretty sure they stayed up way too late talking.  We made Christmas cookies and she played with the babies.  I’m positive that it is more stable and caring environment than anything she has ever known.

Her mom is a different story… she didn’t come with her to visit and is certain now that she doesn’t want her to come.  She wanted her to come for 6 months enough for us to cover medical bills and the first sleepless nights and then send her home.  Well, our program doesn’t work that way.  And mom is not thinking through the costs of an infant, doctor visits, shots, sickness, parenting, discipline, a 14 year old who has no idea what she is doing and should be given a chance to keep studying.  Mom is only thinking that she will be lonely if S isn’t there, even though she cannot care for her.  So we are just praying.  We have seen God do a miracle in a mom’s heart before and we are praying for it again.  If He wants her here, she will come.  If not… we will continue to pray for her where she is that the Lord puts people in her life to love and care for her where she is.  I will be back in touch with them in a few weeks.

Thank you for walking this with me.  Every day of this journey is a step of faith for me… trusting God for His timing in everything.