Why adoption?

So we are adopting.....there are times I can't even believe it, times I'm excited, times when I am scared (most of the time). But mostly, there is peace when it comes down to it. Peace that God has called and God will equip. It is exciting, to think that our family will be growing again. I had given up on that dream even while carrying Luke, to have this opportunity is beyond exciting! But now I can dream again. I can dream about fingers and toes, bottles, first steps, first words, and maybe just maybe I can dream in pink and purple!!

People ask me all the time how and why we are adopting. The main reason is we want more kids. We have room in our hearts and lives for more. We have both spent time in Africa and have seen up close the effects of poverty, how these orphans have no safety nets. There are no social programs, no food kitchens, no way to get out of some situations. I looked in those eyes, I saw those swollen bellies. To be able to give a home to a child that so desperately needs it, that is awesome. We know that we are the ones who will be blessed, that Jack and Luke will have their eyes and their hearts opened, that is awesome! I can already smell and taste the streets that we will walk. I feel like my heart never left Africa, I know that Kenny's didn't either. I have no false expectations that it will be easy. I think of the loss that my child or children will come from, how their hearts have already been broken at such a tender age. I grieve for their families, for the history that will be theirs. It is such a different legacy than Jack and Luke will have, but how humbling and exciting that we will write the rest of the story together. 

There is so much redemption to me in adoption. I see how much God the father loved us, even while we had nothing he died and bled so that we could live. He took us in, He gave us a place to grow, to live, to find community. I want to be and feel that we will be a place of safety and unconditional love. I am amazed at how much I love already, how incomplete I feel without them. It will have it's challenges but I say bring it!

I will be writing a lot about adoption and our family, I am so excited to have a record of our journey.  A way to look back and see week by week, month by month how it all went down.  I am so sure that this is the journey we are meant to be on.  I can't wait to hold the precious one or ones that are coming.  It seems like it is so far away but it isn't!!  Habakkuk 2:3 says that it is for a future time, that if it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place.  Those words have been my comfort, I don't know the time or place but I know it's coming!