Shhh, you might hear my mama heart singing! Can you hear it?
Members of our family received the following email last week from my daughter, Jennifer. She and her husband, Jim, have decided to do something I couldn’t wait to tell you about. So, pardon my excitement, and the detour from our usual Tuesday fare, but we would really like your partnership in prayer for the next year. (And I thought nine months was a long time to wait!) This is going to be a severe test of my patience. Please click on the link in Jennifer’s email, and thank you so much in advance for sharing our enthusiasm.
Hey all,
Jim and I just wanted to take a second to let everyone know about the latest news with our family. Yesterday we submitted an application to adopt a baby from China. We have been thinking about adopting for quite some time now and have come to the place where we feel the timing is right. This process should take approximately 12-18 months, and it is most likely the baby will be anywhere from 1-2 years old. Our plan as of now is to take our three kids to China to get their new sibling. We’ll only have to travel once to China, and that trip will last about 14 days. The kids all know of our plans, and are good with it. 🙂 We feel strongly that God has called us all to care for the least of these, and this is one way that we can do that. We are so thankful that God has redeemed our lives ,and we look forward to watching Him work through this process of redemption as well. We know this is going to be a time of ups and downs, and more than anything we ask for you to be in prayer that we will continually seek to glorify Him throughout this process. Specifically, please pray that Jim and I will work during this time as a team, that our kids will have an ever-increasing understanding of what we’re doing, that the new baby will have loving caregivers that foster attachment until we get there, and that God will provide strength, courage, joy and finances. Thanks so much in advance!! I’m going to try to update progress on this blog http://redthreadofhope.blogspot.com/ , so you can check it out if you’d like. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We’ll try to answer as best as possible, as some of this is still new to us. Thanks again!
Jennifer
May God bless your time spent in prayer over this child who is, most likely, being born about now. God is so very good!
Donna, this is wonderful news. Blessings on this sweet child and new family!
Awesome news!! Blessings.