I still remember watching the news and the emotions that flooded me as I sat watching the devastation in Haiti. It was heart wrenching. All I wanted to do was GO. HELP. something. anything. We sat glued to our tv for days. It was then that God started moving and breaking our hearts. We knew we had to do something....but what?? He then began to lay ADOPTION on our hearts so heavily that we couldn't ignore it. We thought we were crazy!!! Is this really what HE wanted for our family?? It couldn't be. I was done having kids. But still we couldn't ignore the "feeling".
I sometimes wonder why that earthquake happened. The utter devastation and loss of life is mind blowing. But then I think...If it didn't happen, would we still be adopting??? How many other people did that earthquake "shake", "wake-up", "move"???
I do know God's ways are not our ways. He does things that we don't understand.
I don't like that it took such a catastrophic event to wake us up. But I am so thankful for where we are today. Paul and I have grown so much in the last year it's crazy. God has never been SO real to us. I am so thankful for where HE has taken our family and the path that we are on.
"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10
It's awesome what God can do with a year!!!!
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about some things that happened in our lives healthwise in the last couple of years, and how God's changed my heart. Only God can take a tragedy and bring good from it and change hearts for His kingdom! I just found your blog through Amy's! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Abby,
ReplyDeleteIt is so Amazing to see that you are on the Incredible Adoption
Journey. Your Heart will never be the same-I am so Happy for you.
Love
Tracy
Hi Abby! I feel the same way. I was on the phone with World Vision asking questions that night..."What can we do? Where do we go? How can we step in to help? 'And"...I blurted out..."I want to adopt, can you help with that,too?" Of course, as you know that was not to be but it did turn my heart towards adopting again. God had been trying to stir us for 3 years before that, it took an earthquake to set things in motion for us. Thanks for sharing your story!!
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Cris