Today we share the pain

Today we share the pain of friends we have never met. Friends with whom we have shared stories and pictures, joy and tears. Friends who had the same goal we have, to bring children home from Irkutsk. Today our friends received the news that the children they were waiting for are no longer in the orphanage, they have been reclaimed by family. One of our biggest fears. We share their pain, we cry with them, we pray that God give them peace. We pray for all of the families waiting for their children. We pray for the children waiting for their families. We pray for understanding that God knows what is best.