Hello sweet readers.
I know, we’ve been MIA. I’m so sorry about that. I have some sweet photos to put up, and catch up blogging to do, and I really need to write an adoption update. This next week or so might bring us some answers and news (maybe good, maybe not). There’s a lot more and I really will try to wrap my brain around how to share it all with you all.
But right now I wanted to share with you some sweet reminders we’ve had of the miracle of adoption.
We so often we forget WHO’s writing this story and our feeble hearts get anxious and fearful and oh, so weary. our adoption journey has definitely not been what I hoped it would be and we get discouraged all too often. I am SO incredibly grateful for the people the Lord has placed in our lives who remind us of what he’s up to, whether they know it or not.
Eric and I had the great privilege as newly weds to be in home group with this dear family. They were some of the first friends we shared with about going to Japan and then about Noa being born. We loved being in their home, which was full of life with their 4 children and new puppy. Their youngest, Alex, had just been added to their family through adoption, and I remember just marveling as I held him at how unaware he was of the incredible blessings God had poured out on him in giving him this family, and being equally struck by what a blessing and gift he was to each of them.
Anyway, even though we haven’t lived near each other for half a decade now, I am so blessed by how God uses them to encourage and bless our growing family still. I can’t begin to tell y’all how timely some of her words, in either blog posts or personal notes, have been for us as we’ve walked this road. I am ever so grateful for God’s work in this family, and how it has overflowed to bless us.
And all that to say, you will love reading their stories, but if you can’t read them all, you have GOT TO READ this one. THIS is what adoption is about. Oh, it just makes me weep with joy that God is doing this. Praise HIM!
