A lot has happened in the past few days! I will rewind a little bit...
A few days ago I thought we had found our agency. I had done a bunch of research, which all turned up very positively. We were about ready to decide to send in our application when I had a thought... have I been praying enough? The answer? No. I know you cannot adopt a child without praying every step of the way and expect to come up with good results. I don't know what was keeping me from it. I guess it was just the excitement and obsessiveness of it all that I got distracted from the point. The point of our adoption is to glorify God... so why wasn't He being consulted more?
The next morning before I even opened my eyes, I prayed. "Stephen and I have decided to start the process with this agency. If it is not your will, then please block it." And guess what happened?
I contacted my coordinator with our decision, and she threw a blockade into the mix. The information we were given about the age of the children available was wrong. There are only older children available now. God gave us His opinion. Pretty loudly. LOL
As soon as we realized we could no longer move forward with this agency, we prayed that God lead us to the right one. I called my mom today to tell her about the sad news, and she mentioned I should look at Katie Davis' ministry Amazima to see if the website had any adoption resources. Great idea!
From there it lead me to a website of a not-for-profit Christian adoption organization helping families at the beginning stages of adoption. Their program saves time, money, and headaches for couples interested in adoption – all at no cost. They provide a list of agencies that are ethical, experienced and financially stable for the specific adoption program we choose. They can provide a list of home study providers around our area. They provide resources on how to fund adoptions. They basically make the adoption process less complicated and overwhelming. This made me feel SO MUCH better! There is soooo much information to weed through and it was all overwhelming me tremendously... and then depressing me when something fell through. I believe this program will help us so much. I've just kept saying, "Why can't someone just tell us to use THIS agency???" Hopefully this organization will help us weed through all the ridiculous stuff! I'm so thankful God showed it to us!
So I will keep you all posted on how this goes! Thanks for reading and keeping up with our journey! (and the prayers, too!)
Side note:
It's possible that our baby has already been conceived and is growing in his mother's belly right now. Please pray for our baby's health and the health of the birth mother! I pray God blesses the two of them immensely.
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