A Short But Tragic Life
I finished my Saturday translation for women bible study in Hope Church and was about to go home when my employer, Ms. Shirley Miller stopped me and asked if I was interested in escort translation. I agreed though I had full-time job and could not imagine how I would find time for that. But I felt that I really wanted that job. But time passed and nobody called. I stopped worrying about my usual job and dissappointed in that offer already when my stationary phone rang at night. An extremely polite man talked to me and asked about the price for my service, said he was an assistant of Griffin family and called from America. All my family was shocked. A call from America is not a usual event. In 15 minutes my self phone rang and it was Maribeth Griffin. With much troubles we understood each other and exchanged e-mails. She sent me a cute picture of family (daughter, Mom and Dad). They looked so happy together. And I understood that I want to work for that family even if I risk my full-time job. So that's how I got to know these amazing people.
They came in two weeks. The purpose of visit was to see a little 11 years old girl in an orphanage. They wanted to adopt her. On our way to the orphanage I asked what led them to my city for adoption. And Maribeth told me the whole story. Three years ago they came to Ukraine to adopt their first child, Marybrook Irina. They just visited different orphanages and chose her. Mother left Irina in a hospital and the girl stayed in orphanages since she was born. The process of adoption was very long, they did all paper work themselves and knew no Russian at all. But they got real happyness and blessing in their lifes. The girl was very cute, she learnt how to walk and how to speak with them. And her first word was "Dah" that means "yes" in Russian, but she turned to Dad. So Walt became Dah forever and he liked that name crazily. I could not tame a smile when I watched them both caring about little Irina and looking at her with boundless love.
They would live happily everafter, but Irina grew up and started to pray about finding her siblings. Three long years they were trying to find someone from her family, but nothing worked until they told about their search in the church...
To be continued