By Third Day…

Here are the lyrics to the song Merry Christmas by Third Day…available on iTunes…

There’s a little girl trembling on a cold December morn,
Crying for Mama’s arms,
At an orphanage just outside a little town,
With a forgotten heart,
But half a world away I hang the stockings by the fire,
And dream about the day when I can finally call you mine.

It’s Christmas time again but you’re not home,
Your family is here and yet you’re somewhere else alone,
So tonight I pray that God will come and hold you in His arms,
And I’ll tell you from my heart, I wish you Merry Christmas.

As I hang the tinsel on the tree and watch the twinkling lights,
I’m warmed by the fire’s glow,
And outside the children tumble in a wonderland of white,
And make angels in the snow.
But half a world away you try the best to fight your tears,
And hope that heaven’s angels come to carry you here.

Christmas is a time we celebrate the Holy Child,
And we celebrate his perfect gift of Love,
He came to us to give His life and prepare a place for us,
So we could have a home with Him.

It’s Christmas time again but now you’re home,
Your family is here and now you’ll never be alone,
So tonight before you go to sleep I’ll hold you in my arms,
And I’ll tell you from my heart,
And I’ll tell you from my heart, I wish you Merry Christmas.

Adoption Update

It’s been a while since we last sent an e-mail about our adoption journey and today I finally have some time to sit and write about it, so here goes… The “summary” is, that our Dossier (paperwork) is in China and now we are waiting for our “log in date” from which we will wait 14 months for a referral. At this point, it looks like we’ll be flying to China sometime in February of 2008 to get our daughter. We have been grouped with 26 other couples who completed their Dossier with the same agency and in the same time frame we did and many of them will be flying to China when we do. We are called “group number 282″ and a few of us have already contacted each other through e-mail and a web blog that Kent set up for us to communicate through. Now the waiting begins!