It's Not Headlines in the U.S.

As if we needed something to worry about, there is news about political unrest coming out of Kyiv. This has been brewing since 2004 when they had what they refer to as the "Orange Revolution." This was a revolution in which a pro-western leader emerged as the president over a presumed Soviet backed foe. In my limited understanding of the situation, the Soviet backed foe has since come back to power by means of becoming the head of the parliament and thus the Prime Minister. He was steadily gaining positions in the parliament to remove all of the powers from the President so the President effectively dissolved parliament on Monday. The parliament immediately issued a resolution stating that they would ignore the President and continue to meet. Supporters of both men have taken to the streets of Kyiv to demonstrate their allegiance to the leaders. The military has already announced that they would follow the President. The rumors began flying on some of the chat rooms that these actions would effectively shut down the government, and thus, the adoption authority. There were also rumors about everyone in the adoption authority being fired because of the power struggles within the government. We are unsure if any of these rumors are true or not. We talked to the ladies that are helping us with the adoption and they told us that they had heard from the US Embassy via e-mail this morning and the Embassy told them that anyone that already had an appointment should be OK. We trust them. The Embassy has been wrong before too though.
With that, it causes us to rely on our God even more. We know He has a plan for us. We could certainly use the prayers of those of you that are like minded.
We packed tonight. It looks good for getting everything in on the first try. We are taking some old clothes so that we can just leave them or throw them away so that we will have room for some gifts and souveniers on our return. We still have a few small things to get to add but I think we are in good shape.
A story to end the post; the other night as we were driving home from somewhere, Caleb said, "It is going to be a sad week next week." He was refering to us leaving. I tried to tell him that it would be sad but that it was for a good reason and for him to imagine the celebration that would occur when we returned home. It stayed on my mind so Sunday on our way home from church, I was trying to explain to him again how excited we would be when we got back together and he related it to the Easter story of Jesus. He talked about how the people that loved Jesus didn't want to see Him die on the cross and they were sad when He did. But when He returned, they were extremely happy and excited. You can't buy those kinds of emotions as a parent. I wouldn't trade the feelings that I felt as I listened to him tell me that story for all of the money in the world. The fact that he knows that it is true and that he is beginning to understand what it means to him as an individual is beyond compare. He is amazing. And so is HE. It is going to be a sad day next week. But we are already looking forward to the homecoming and when we will be united as an entire family again.