Adoption Adventure

We are adopting two children from Haiti. It has been a long process, 10+ years total. God sometimes ask you to do something, and then ask you to wait. It was hard to wait. But God was working in us, to prepare us. He was working to prepare our children. So we prayed, for wisdom for us, safety and health for our children. God had to teach us, about financial responsibility, about trust and dependence, about his place in our family. He was caring for our adoptive children and their birth family. While we question at times, would the answer ever be "yes, it's time. Go!" we kept trusting God's perfect timing.



And now we could see God's perfect timing. We understood all the times he said wait. I don't think we are given many times in our life to see God's perfect plan. Many times we have to wait till heaven to see his perspective. And yet, in this we have been glimpsed God's perfect plan for us. I believe that adoption is always a God thing. To bring a parent and child together is a miracle, regardless of the mechanism. God is always involved in creating a family, and adoption requires overtime on his part. We can trust that he is faithful to complete the work in which he starts.



Re and Er are those very children we prayed for, that God prepared. God's good work, and we are trusting him for completion. While we wait, we are reminded that ten years has flown by. The next year will also fly by, and they will come home in God's timing. When we are ready, and they are ready.