Today Dustin and I will be attending our first orientation (with the county) to start the process of bringing home our baby(ies)! This will be our second adoption and we can hardly wait to get started! To read our story and how we came to be adoptive parents, click
here. The process includes an interview, an application, gathering referrals, background checks, fingerprinting, classes, and a homestudy. The adoption process is never quick and easy, but ALWAYS worth it!
During my quiet time with the Lord today I spent a long time praying and committing this entire adoption process to God. I have already spent many, many hours praying for this baby and all the babies God has planned for us. I pray that God prepares us for each other. I pray they feel happy, safe, and secure in this beautiful family that God alone is creating. I pray for all our children's (whoever they are!) salvation in God's perfect timing and according to His will...that
no matter what it takes, they accept Christ. I pray for wisdom for all parties involved in this adoption...and wisdom as we continue to learn and grow as parents. We'd appreciate your prayers for us if God ever puts us on your heart/mind. Thank you.
Being an adoptive family has really opened my eyes to the AMAZING and eternal gift that God gives each of His children through our salvation - our faith in the gospel, in the work of Jesus Christ - God's Son - and His selfless death on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. Through our faith in Jesus Christ, we become a child of God. He adopts us as His own. We become an heir who gets to walk with Him here on earth and who gets to accept the riches of being an heir - eternal life with God!
Ephesians 1:3-8a "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ
to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely
bestowed on us in the Beloved.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
which He lavished upon us."
I am a child of God. Dustin is a child of God. We thank God every second of every day for His grace and forgiveness and blessings in our life!
As Colin, and all our children, grow up and can understand more and more of their beautiful adoption story, we can't wait to make the connection between our adoption in Christ and our adoption here on earth as a family. Our children won't stand out because they are adopted. Our family (Lord willing) will stand out because we are all adopted into God's family.
Adoption is beautiful in every way and we can't wait to have our children see how proud we are that God picked each one of us to be a part of this earthly family, and Lord willing, eternal family as children of God.
