Today is New Year's in Ethiopia!
In Ethiopia the rainy season is coming to an end and the fields are covered with beautiful wild daisies. Children (usually girls) gather daisies and deliver them as New Year's gifts.
Joshua handed out the store boughten American version... at least they were yellow... to his favorite ladies at church. Not quite in line with Ethiopian tradition, but an attempt at least.
It was an emotional morning for me as I considered the very serious famine that is taking place in the area of our youngest son's birth. I think of his extended family in Ethiopia. Are they able to celebrate? Do they have their most basic of needs met? It is a sobering thought. Knowing my little man is safe, healthy, loved, thriving. He lacks nothing. Water is something to play with, not haul. It is clean, not harmful. Food is plentiful. Clothes are not lacking. We have so very, very much... ridiculous amounts.
So today, more than most days, I remember and honor Joshua Gebeyehu's, and thus our, Ethiopian family.
Melkam Addis Amet!
