Our Daughter's Song

I wanted to share the song that Ty wrote for our daughter in Africa. You can hear by going to
www.myspace.com/tyrusmorgan

"My Love Won't Walk Away" it's the 1st song-just click on it

This is an earlier post from Ty about the song...

I (Ty) wrote a song when Casey was pregnant with Ella about the potential/dreams for Ella and where her "Little Shoes" may go some day. I seem to be inspired during that "pregnancy" period whether it's biological or not and was struck by the feelings of abandonment that many orphans have at some point in their lives and how I don't want our children, any of them, to ever worry or wonder about losing mine or Casey's love and wanted to express it through music. I began writing the song and had titled it "MY LOVE WON'T WALK AWAY". I then stumbled upon Isaiah 54 in "The Message" translation of The Bible and the verse that God says, "MY LOVE WON'T WALK AWAY". I have finished this song and look forward to recording it soon to be a message to my kids and a reminder of God's love for us.

---now it's recorded!

Thanks and enjoy!
Casey

education

Please educate yourself on this issue. It is EXTREMELY important

BBC News- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7429594.stm

IMC- http://imcworldwide.org/content/media/detail/1798/?gclid=CJa1_Z7isZQCFRghnAodF3M_iA

Seeing Africa

Casey here--Ok...so it happened once and I wasn't going to tell you about it and now it just happened again so I have to tell you...

The other day I was putting shampoo in my hand to then put it in my hair and I looked down and it was in the shape of Africa!

Well, just now I got a water spot on my dress and guess what...yeah, you're right-it was in the shape of AFRICA!

I guess because a big piece of my heart is there and it is always on my mind!

Keep an eye out, you just might see it, too. Let me know if you do!

We are now on week 3 of waiting for a referral. After running around for 3 months like crazy people... getting fingerprinted, gathering every speck of info (i.e. birth cert., marriage cert, vitals) available on us, having a HUGE yard sale (that we are still recovering from physically), having our home inspected...it is time to sit still and wait! It feels a little strange, I must say. People ask us all the time, "What's going on with the adoption?". Well, not much that we can see. The next thing that will happen on our side is we will get a referral with pictures and info about our child. That should be 3.25 to 5.25 more months! yes the .25 is to ephasize we have already waited our .75 months.

Let me share a few stats about Ethiopia for those of you that haven't heard of the country since "We are the World" came out in the eighties.

*Ethiopia is twice the size of Texas

*it has a population of about 75 million people

*there are approx. FIVE MILLION orphans in Ethiopia

*the average income is $500/YEAR

*One in six children die before their fifth birthday

*One in ten children die before their first birthday

*Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school; 88% will never attend secondary school

*Only 24% of households have access to safe drinking water

*Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000