Good Friday

Father God, You waited through the long hours of agony, when He was robbed even of the sense of Your love, Your presence, when the sin and disease and hatred and darkness overwhelmed Him so greatly.

He was wounded for my transgressions, He was wounded for our transgressions.

Father, what love is this of His? What love is this of Yours that His dying love reflects? Your forgiveness for me, as we gaze upon His sacrificial death, is as truly an undeserved gift as the pardon He spoke to the dying thief. It is mine if I will only receive:

He was wounded for my transgressions, He was wounded for our trangressions.

(Adapted from Celtic Daily Prayer: Inspirational prayers and readings from the Northumbria Community.)

Just a little rant…

I just spent the last two hours in a student meeting. A student meeting..! Two hours..! I mean, I know that changing the Student Body’s Constitution is the height of importance… but oh my word! I don’t have two hours for a student meeting..!!!! No-one has two hours for a student meeting..!!

Waiting, waiting…

Still nothing to say about adoption process. We’re still waiting. Waiting for..? We don’t even know what. Our translator said that we just have to be patient (or patientful as one of our students from last year used to say!). But its really tough! The social services department has had our paperwork for nearly 3 months, but we have heard nothing. Our translator phoned in January to check that they had everything that they needed etc, and she was told that they did and would contact her or us with further developments. But its been 2 months since then, and still nothing. I’m sure that it just feels like much much longer than it is, but (sigh) I just wish that we knew something… I feel so in the dark.

In the meantime we’re doing some reading, reflecting and talking about adoption, children, family stuff in general. But at the back of my mind, I have this fear that its not going to happen. That for some reason we will not be accepted. We have said to ourselves since the very beginning that we would continue to ‘push the door’ of adoption until we came to one that didn’t open, and so we continue to hope that it will happen… but that niggling feeling that its not going to, just doesn’t go away.

Anyway, aside from that, the good news is that lovely Laura is arriving in Prague tonight! Hurrah! We are going to have a fabulous weekend of drinking tea, chatting and wondering around Prague. I can’t wait!

Enjoy the weekend, one and all..!