Our Journey Continues

On December 27, 2010, we started down the road on a journey toward adoption.  It was a journey that caused us to grow in our faith, trusting God for incredible things as He prepared us for the arrival of a child into our family.  It was a short seven months later that we met Hesedah.  We arrived at the hospital after she was born and fell in love with her as soon as we laid eyes on her.  The first leg of our journey has been incredibly rewarding and we often say we would do it a thousand times again.

On December 23, 2013 (just three weeks ago), we met with Buckner International, a foster and adoption agency in East Texas, to begin our second journey of adoption.  Our first application has been submitted and we will be attending an adoption orientation this week.  We are thrilled to be on this journey again.  Hesedah will be such a great big sister.  We are excited to be growing our family through adoption.

To give you a little background, our plans for having a family haven't been easy.  We've been through two miscarriages and have had plenty of infertility treatments.  From a medical perspective, everything appears to be fine and we should be able to conceive.  However, it does not appear that it is in the Lord's plans for us to have biological children.  As we reflect on how this has all worked out, we realize that if we had biological children, we probably would not have Hesedah.  The same is true now.  There's a baby that only God knows and we are looking forward to adding him/her to our family. 

As we think about this journey, our prayers are for a child out there somewhere.  We are also praying for a birthmother who is contemplating a plan for adoption for the child she is carrying.  Once again, we are trusting the Lord and asking you to pray with us. 

This blog will chronicle our journey of life and hope.  Please pray for us and follow our story.  Also, feel free to pass our story on to others.  Something that really helps the adoption process is networking, connecting with others who might know of an adoption opportunity.  The more people you tell, the better we will be connected.

Some ways to pray:
- Pray for the birthmother who is making a plan for her unborn child, especially that she will make a plan for adoption.
- Pray for our meeting with the adoption agency on January 16.
- Pray for our financial needs as we gather our resources for this journey.