Qoyta in Amharic means "waiting." My sweet friend Dawn surprised me with a necklace at the orphan Sunday event last weekend that says "Qoyta" on it. It also has two stones representing the two children Scott and I are waiting on. I was overwhelmed with tears when Dawn gave me such a precious gift and I have worn it every day since.
This recent season of waiting seems to drag on with plodding steps as we wait to bring home two precious children from Ethiopia, but I was recently reminded by Annie Dillard that each day is filled with holiness, mystery and is ever so fleeting.
"Time is eternity's pale interlinear, as the islands are the sea's. We have less time than we knew and that time buoyant, and cloven, lucent, and missile, and wild." -- Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
"Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountains split." -- Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
This is the image of dawn enjoyed by the runners during the first few miles of the Chosen Marathon for Adoption in October.
If you need some xmas or holiday gift ideas, Dawn is selling 'destiny' necklaces that go to help widows and single mothers in Uganda -- many affected by the AIDs in epidemic
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