Well, this is the start in a new chapter of our life and a new Blog for that chapter. I helped my wife to set up this blog and was asked to make the first posting. I will try to be brief but there is so much to catch you up on that I apologize in advance for the length.
We have been married for 12 ½ years and God has blessed us both with a great relationship, family, friends and occupations. However, a child for us has not been in the plan as of yet, as most of you probably know, our plans don’t always match up to God’s plan. For whatever reason, doctors cannot tell us why we have infertility issues, all tests come back good and all they can come up with is theories. We started to consider adoption about six years ago and started to pray for God’s guidance. I should say now, we were not always good listeners. We started the adoption process with Bethany Christian Adoption agency but quit at the beginning for 2 reasons. One reason we still were holding on to have a biological child and was looking into procedures the second was that it would cost close up to $30,000. We wanted a baby in need of a family to love him/her not to purchase one. So we pursued some medical intervention which failed (3 attempts, one first trimester miscarriage). This devastated us and at first made us angry at God. We could not understand why so many people who should not be having children do, but we could not. Here we are at the fork in the road, do we spend $10, 000+ on advance medical procedures that could fail or pursue adoption? We prayed and prayed, we felt God was ignoring us. One night my wife and I prayed together, when done we turned on the TV and saw an ad for the County Adoption. Like I said , it was like God was ignoring us. A couple of days later my wife and I attended our weekly community church bible study. The verse we studied that night was, Romans 8:14-16, For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The discussion was that we are all adopted children of God. Again, Why is God ignoring us. The following Sunday was Pro-Life week and our church had a speaker from the County Adoption agency. Sometimes in life we walk with blinders on, God had been revealing himself plain as day to us and we just walked on by. So we finally got the message (thump on the head) and started the adoption process with the county. I will not bore you with the process details as it took us two years. We did not want to rush in and with my job, I am gone most of the summer on Wildland fires. We completed the process this June and was notified last week that we had been selected by a birth mom to adopt her infant boy due August 9th. I will let my wife post about our experience from this point on. I will add this, we had always had a named picked out for a boy or girl for about ten years. We had chosen Jonathan for a boy and Rebecca for a girl. We wanted a strong Christian and biblical name for our son and felt John was a good choice. We did not know until recently when we looked up the name and found out that “Jonathan” is Hebrew for Gift of God, now how fitting is that?!!!
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