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Adoption can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Questions, of how a mother could choose adoption over parenting her own flesh and blood. Her baby. The little life inside of her, that was a part of her, for nine months. While I am no expert on this; I have learned so much, and I am learning a lot. We never know what a mother who has found herself in this situation is going through. Maybe as a child herself, she dealt with abandonment, abuse, physical or sexual abuse. Maybe as an adult she has found herself homeless, or lost in the terrible addictions of drugs or alcohol. Maybe she is a young girl, not even through school yet, who has found herself in a situation she never expected; not even eighteen and pregnant. Truth is; we may never know. To me the importance of the situation is that she chose life for her child . She knows that the life she is living, isn’t the life that she wants her child, the child she loves, to live. Maybe she is choosing a different path f...

Puzzle Piece Fundraiser Update! Since launching this fundraiser at the beginning of 2017, fifty eight puzzle pieces have been sponsored! Thank you to each of you who have been a part in "bringing home, our missing piece." There are still 194 pieces that need sponsored, or as we like to say "adopted". When you adopt a puzzle piece, your name is written on the back of a puzzle piece. Once all pieces have been "adopted," the puzzle will then be framed in two sided glass, and hung in the nursery, so that one day we can show our child, all who helped bring home our missing piece! And, please feel free to share this post to help spread the word, we have had church life groups, and small groups share, and partake in this blessing, and we are so thankful for that! Things are still pretty quiet as far as the adoption goes; which is normal. These things take time, and we know that we could wait for months, or that call could come at any time. We want to be...

Sometimes God says no because he has a better or a different plan. Sometimes we go through life with plans of our own, only to realize that what we want, may not be what God wants for us. And not just in this journey, have we found this to be true. Growing up, I always dreamed of being married, and having a family of my own. I would think about the man I would marry, the life we would live, and the children we would have. My plans for my life, were far from what God had in mind for my life. Kevin and I both knew that having children together was not possible. So we chose to trust the Lord. We knew that He had a plan, and we chose to trust His plan. Little did we know that it would be almost eleven and a half years into our marriage before we would come to realize what he wanted for our lives. Adoption. It's not something we talked about often, or something we even really seriously considered. We heard that adoption was expensive, and risky, and we just weren't ready t...