Adoption Sounds of Silence
15 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in adoption, Christian Faith, orphan care Tags: Adoption, Ethiopia, orphan
Folk rock legend Paul Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” when he was 21. It took Simon about 6 months to write the song because he was able to eek out only one line per day–a fitting testament to the difficulty that one person has trying to communicate with another. (Christians understand from Genesis 3 and Genesis 11 the origins of humankind’s communication breach). In this first hit song, Simon tried to sing about the difficulty we have breaking through the sound of silence.
I bring up this matter of esoteric music trivia simply to say (as you can tell) that we have echoed the sound of silence since last April. From April until November, our blog has joined the “ten thousand people maybe more, people talking without speaking.”
We hope you heard our silence. To us it was painfully deafening, as we went week after week after week after week with no word from our boys–with no word from anybody about our boys. Oh, there were rumors here and rumors there about the bureaucratic breakdowns which would likely lead to further delays, etc., but there was no real word about our boys.
Finally, we got word that the courts will take our case on December 16, 2011.
