Tomorrow is the day...
The day we go to the airport and pick up the foreign exchange student that will be staying with us for the next 6 months. I am so full of love right now. I always feel immeasurable amounts of love, but right now, I fell as if I just might burst. Happiness has taken over and I feel so giddy. Butterflies are dancing in my stomach and I just want to skip up and down the hall singing "she's on her way, she's on her way."
Just a couple of hours ago, I got a call from M's Cousin. She told me that M has boarded her plane and is now on her way. She told me that her Mom wanted to make sure we would be there to pick her up at the airport. Apparently, she was very scared and lonely when she got on the plane. I wish I could give her a hug right now and make her feel better. She has no idea what kind of people she is flying across the world (7135 miles and 13.5 hours) to stay with. I wish I could reassure her that we are going to be so good to her and she is going to do great. I wish I could relieve the stress she is feeling leaving her family. She will have to make such an adjustment. I love her already and I haven't even met her yet.
Just trying to wrap my mind around this is blowing me away. We are "getting a Korean!" Us, RJ, Patti and L ...Kim too, but she's a little busy with her own thing right now. :-) A Korean...Us...unbelievable. Talk about trying something new, something you would never think to do, something so outside your box that it has to be a God thing for it to be happening. I am so excited, happy, in awe. I can't wait to share our experience and tell stories of how things are going. God is awesome and provisional. This is happening because of Him, through Him and for Him.
BTW, please understand that we don't say "getting a Korean" in a demeaning way. When we first started talking about this, Land I knew that RJ would say NO WAY. So, we started praying about it, asking God to make RJ receptive of the idea and open minded about it. I knew if RJ even considered doing it, it would be because God touched him. Sure enough, RJ didn't make the first negative remark. When L introduced the idea to him, he began asking questions like "where is she going to sleep?" "Will Mom take her to school with you?" "Do you think she will like our house?" I couldn't believe my ears. I didn't even speak, I just listened as God "did His thang!" After that initial conversation, there was a lot of praying, thinking, wishing, hoping and more conversations. RJ and I told L that we had decided to do it. She was so excited, she started singing "we're getting a Korean, we're getting a Korean." We laughed at her, maybe even shed a tear or two, and celebrated with her. It stuck..."we're getting a Korean." It isn't a negative thing, the phrase reflects the excitement behind one of the most wonderful decisions our family has ever made. We're getting a Korean and I love her without even meeting her yet. She is going to thrive with our family...because of God.
LYMI!
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