A Special Prayer for Frederick

Meet Josiah.

Josiah is adopted.

Josiah has autism.

Josiah is the grandson of my friend Sue.

Josiah is a cousin to Kadre & Attah, two boys adopted from the same orphanage we are adopting Frederick from (Frederick and Kadre are best friends).

My daughter Brianne and I had the privilege of hanging out with Josiah and his grandparents a few weeks ago.

Josiah felt an immediate connection to Brianne.  Before they even interacted much, he pointed to her and said “You are funny” (we often refer to Brianne as our stand-up comedian).  He remained at her side the rest of our visit.

Josiah pointed to me and said “You are tired”.  While he seemed to get Brianne pretty accurately, I wasn’t really sure I was feeling very tired that evening!   So I don’t know where that came from, but to him I am “the tired one”.

The next day, while Josiah was still at his grandparents, he went to the picture of Frederick on their refrigerator and asked what his name was again.  Sue realized that having met us the night before she could now make a connection for him.  She told him Frederick was going to be Brianne’s brother, and Mrs. Clark’s son (to which he said – “the tired one”) and that we needed to pray that he would be able to come here soon.

Josiah said “He’s brown like me”.

And he sat down and prayed for Frederick.

We are so thankful for all of you, including Josiah, who are praying for us and with us through this journey.