Patience and Surrender

If the adoption process doesn’t bring anything else to families … it certainly helps you learn patience … and learn how to surrender in the process.  We were hoping to have a court date by the end of September but now that will be delayed.  There is a new regional director in Ghana, which is delaying things a bit.  From what I am reading from a group I am involved in with other families adopting from Ghana, this is a good thing, and this new director has good intentions in doing the job well.  That is something we are thankful for.  What this means for us is that we will wait longer for our first court date.  Ghana is currently working to develop a more streamlined process for adoption, which is also a good thing.  It just requires for us to have patience and trust that God is in control of this process.

 When you are given a child through adoption you have a deeper awareness of the fact that our kids are not “ours” … what I mean by that is that it can be easy to think of our biological kids as property, or beings that we have control over … but when you adopt and receive a child that was born to someone else, we have found that we understand deeply that these children are all God’s children.  They are not “ours” and in that we have to surrender that God’s plan is greater than our own.  Please don’t be alarmed, we believe all of our children are ours, we just know that God gives each child (through birth or  adoption) and it is His plan that determines what that looks like throughout life.  When Kylie came into our family she had a strange infection enter her body when she was 2 ½ months old.  We spent 8 nights at children’s hospital very thankful for the intravenous antibiotics needed remove this infection from her body.  I remember to this day driving to the hospital and saying to God … “She is yours, and I surrender her to you” … we had no idea at that point why she had such a high white count and it took a couple of  days to know for sure what we were going to face.  Kylie healed and she is a very healthy almost five year old. 

We entered this process this time trying hard from the beginning to surrender this whole adoption process to God.  He has the timing all figured out and we know that He loves this precious girl that we have only seen through one picture and He has big plans for her! 

It’s not too late to join us next Saturday for our fundraising event.  We are excited to see everyone that can come and are humbled by the love and support of so many!