It's a GIRL!

This morning I posted my blog about a boy that I was expecting to be coming to me shortly and, this evening, after I got home from work, guess who arrived???

Not who I expected.

I opened the mailbox and saw the envelope with the Compassion stamp. I raced inside, nearly closing the door on my dog, bounded up the stairs, ran to my room and grabbed my sweater. I wanted to be comfortable for this. I had to keep telling myself that I'd waited this long and could wait a few seconds longer. I curled up in my dad's big comfy chair and ripped open the envelope. Slowly I pulled the pages out and slowly I flipped them open to reveal...

Erehemat Asmare, 4 years old, from Ethiopia. A girl.

It took me a minute to figure out that she wasn't the boy I had been looking for. I had finished reading her biography and had to re-read it because the words they used didn't seem to line up with the male gender. In fact, I thought they had written more about his sister than about him. And then I read it again. Oh.

I wish I could say that I was thrilled with the arrival of this dear one, but I can't. I was actually, I'm sorry to say, disappointed. I had been looking forward to my boy. I had been praying for 'him'. So it was quite a shock to see a little girl staring at me from the page. I couldn't understand how it was a 'her' instead of a 'him'. I had asked for a 'him'.

I ended up putting the picture aside and wondering, now what?

I'll tell you now what. Now I'm going to love my little girl. She's gorgeous. I wish I had a scanner so I could scan her picture into the computer and show her off to you all. You would think she's gorgeous too. I'm going to have to come up with a nickname. A term of endearment. Maddy.. or something.

So, I didn't get quite what I was expecting, but maybe this girl needs my help more than I realize... I don't know, but God knows and so I shall just have to change my prayers from a 'him' to a 'her'.

I love my girl already.