Orphans and adoption is a topic that is part of our lives already. My husband's brother and his wife (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law) adopted our beautiful neice "K" from Guatemala in 2008 and are in the process of adopting a little boy "J" from Africa right now. I'm just going to use the initial "K" and "J" for their names just for privacy purposes. "K" is the sweetest, most beautiful little girl in the world and she has changed our families lives so much already. Sometimes I wonder what kind of life "K" would have had if she had never been adopted. Would she have felt loved? Would she have been well taken care of? and the questions could go on and on, but I'm glad that we don't have to worry about any of those questions. She is loved more than she could imagine and is well taken care of by her Mommy and Daddy. This little girl has already stolen the hearts of everyone in our family and I know little "J" will too. I've realized that adoption is not only a blessing to the child, but a blessing for the family that adopts that child also. We can't imagine our family without little "K" being a part of it.
But what about all those other children that are living in orphanages or living on the streets that don't even know where their next meal is going to come from? Don't they deserve a family that loves them?
Well, this is exactly what God was asking ME. As my husband and I sat in church that morning listening to an amazing sermon on God's love for orphans, God truely spoke to our hearts. Then on our car ride home my husband told me how God touched his heart about orphans and we talked about how we felt that God's plan for our lives would involve adoption. But then the questions began to flood in. When is the right time to adopt? Where would we adopt from? How will we ever be able to afford an adoption? After much prayer and discussion God led us to an answer. We knew we were not financially able to proceed with an adoption at the moment, but we knew that we were definentely going to adopt, but just not right now. We felt blessed that God decided to let us have a sneak peak at what our future holds. Although we now know that God's plan for us is to adopt a child, we also feel that God wants our family to be a BLENDED family with biological children and adopted children. We have no clue as to what exactly our future holds or when these things will happen, but we do know that our Heavenly Father knows each day that lies ahead of us and we trust in HIM with all our hearts!
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