Our little “E” is 6 months old, I can hardly believe it. Tomorrow we meet with the lawyer to submit paperwork for the finalization of his adoption.
I want to confess that I avoid (at all costs) thinking about the last year and all the ups and downs of our adoption journey. I just want to mediate on how much we love “E: and how none of us can imagine life without him (not even the dogs!).
But alas, adoption is messy and there is no way getting around it. I don’t think I have read or heard about any adoption story that was simple and easy.
But maybe that is the way it’s supposed to be. Maybe adoption is hard and messy and makes us want to run the other way because it shines a light on the Lord and his inability to stop running after us. Adoption is an earthly picture of His relentless pursuit of us, his sacrifice for us and his plans for us including an eternal forever home.
We moms (adopted or not), we pursue our children with a fierce tenacity and we prepare a forever earthly home for our gifts from God. We toil, we ache, we rejoice, we pray, we weep and we give thanks. All the same things our God does for us.
As I reflect back on our adoption journey, I remember the multiple matches, the 5 months spent investing in a birth mom that ultimately committed fraud (of herself), to begging God to save us from the pain of giving back a baby to the outlandish way God chose to bless us financially to the eventual birth of our son.
It’s not the road I expected yet it’s beautiful and redemptive and filled with grace and mercy.
Adoption is a Walk in Faith (preparing for the unkown of open adoption)
What Just Happened? (finding out the adoption failed)
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