Adoption: "Not for the Wimps of Heart"

I was reminded the other night by my dear friend, Catherine, who has also adopted that a.) adoption is not for the wimps of heart and b.) hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful (Hebrews 10:23).

In adoption, things can change in a New York minute. There is no guarantee until we're heading home on the plane with our baby in our arms. Hence, adoption is not for wimps. I'm giving you the play by play of adoption. The good with the bad, the awesome with the not-so-awesome moments. It's not just a sweet fairy tale that we can happily blog through. Sometimes these stories do not end in happily ever after...sometimes they do, it's just a bumpy ride getting there. Adoption is dealing with real people who are going through a very difficult things.

Daily in this process we are falling more and more in love with a child we haven't met yet. It's almost impossible not to! We have to let our hearts "go there" even if it means heartbreak. God, the Father, goes there with us daily. He gives us our all. He loves us deeply and unconditionally, even before we ourselves call him Father.

I may not be providing minute by minute blog posts about the next couple of months of the process. The next post I write may be a little synopsis of our visit with the birth mother.

In the meantime, we're continually in communication with the agency and the birth mother, getting our home ready for a little one and helplessly falling in love with someone we haven't met yet. Which is all very awesome but can be extremely stressful at the same time. Give us grace and prayer please!

PLEASE keep us in prayer through this. Keep the birth father, the birth mother and their families in prayer that they would continue to make the right decisions for the baby. Most importantly, pray that the birth parents and the baby would come to know Jesus, in a real way, through this adoption.

Pray that Matt and I would make wise decisions in the final stages of this process. That we'd have peace and most importantly, that we'd have faith in our mighty God that is totally at work in all of this. And lastly, for protection from the evil one, for all.

"Faith is no refuge for the fainthearted, 

but something which enhances our lives. 

It makes us aware of a magnificent calling, 

the vocation of love.” - Pope Francis (Lumen Fidei, 53)