Prayer Warriors, Near and Far

We have had SO many people tell us how much they are praying for us through this adoption process. It's amazing to see the body of Christ rise up. We're forever changed and our faith is forever strengthened through the experiences God has given us in this adoption journey. That is really a BIG reason we encourage everyone to prayerfully consider adoption for their family, whether you are fertile or infertile. God moves in adoption. You see Him so clearly ACT in big ways when you choose adoption for your family. It's incredibly amazing and faith altering for all involved. We love so much that people are praying for us. That people are talking to the Father for us. That fills our hearts so much.

This week we were given this email from a sweet friend of a our sister in law. It broke our hearts but in a divinely sweet way! Who knew that there was someone that we're not super close with, relationship-wise, praying SO fervently for us and our adoption. Less than two weeks before we were matched, Michelle, got married...in IRELAND and had our adoption on her heart....LITERALLY. Read the email she sent the day after her wedding.


Kim and Matt,


Just wanted to send along a very special message to you from Dublin, Ireland on this 23rd of June, 2013, the day after our wedding. Only a few days ago, Maolsheachlann (my new husband) and I found ourselves writing intercessions for our Nuptial Mass. We thought and thought for ages about all of the people we wanted to pray for, and for all of the causes and circumstances and situations we wanted to prayerfully remember on our special day. It took ages to consolidate all of it into something that could be read without adding an hour to the Mass! J


You might not realize that Dublin has been a whirlwind of abortion legislation recently, with the first ever legislation on the table to allow abortion now. We certainly wanted to keep that in our very vocal prayers. We also knew that getting married at a public shrine – The Shrine to St. Valentine – could attract hundreds of people we didn’t know, so we wanted to be very careful and purposeful as we expressed our prayers with our family, friends, and so many strangers! All this is to say:


I am very happy to share that your most fervent adoption intentions were among those that we offered up during our Mass. We were married on the Feast of St. Thomas More, who as you may already know is the patron saint of adoptions. Can’t hurt to add a sacrament and a Patron Saint to your intention, right?? J I wrote the intention on a little paper heart and tied a blue ribbon to it and pinned it to the inside of my dress so that it rested on my heart. It was my something blue. As I made my vows to love, honor, and cherish my husband and lovingly accept children, I asked God to answer your prayers for children before my own. Just wanted you to know that you were a part of our day in a special way and that there were prayers lifted up for you on June 22, 2013 from the Whitefriar Carmelite Street Church at 4:56 pm, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin, Ireland.



I hope that God blesses you abundantly and that you might keep me and my new family in your prayers as you wait for your Good News.



Love,

Mr. and Mrs. O Ceallaigh

God and His body are SO incredibly good. We're humbled beyond belief by the powerful prayer warriors that surround us and our son. We are seriously keeping a box of all the amazing letters, notes, cards, miracles that have happened in this process, to one day show our son who incredibly loved he was/is even before people had ever met him. 

Michelle and Maolsheachlann, you are beautiful. You're vocation has already begun to touch people's lives and point them toward Jesus by the way your hearts have entered into that covenant, prayerfully for other's needs above your own. The world is watching christian marriages. The world will be changed radically by yours.