I believe that God started putting Ethiopia on my heart. Matt and I both believe that God has called our family to adoption. Matt was very open to adoption even in our dating when I expressed my desire to adopt one day. Even a neater story is that Matt's mother was an orphan and ward of the state, adopted when she was 6 months old. But that is her story and she can share it with you someday. We started considering adoption and praying casually about it just 2 years ago. Beautifully, God planted Africa on my heart many years ago and when I was reading adoption blogs, I was drawn to a particular couple who adopted their daugther from Ethiopia. Everything about their story drew my heart. They had a biological child and 2 adopted children. After reading their blog for awhile, I found this other couple and instantly started following their story and I even bought a book that they wrote. And thus began the connection to Ethiopia. Over the months as Matt and I have read blogs and watched Gotcha videos, we have seen what a beautiful love story adoption is. Our first and foremost love story is with our Creator who has crafted us in His amazing plan and adopted us as his children. He didn't leave us as orphans. It is with this truth and assurance as His children that we see earthly adoption of children as part of his plan and something that we should be joyfully doing. There are over 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia alone and we are excited to see what God is going to do in our lives with bringing one or two into our family.
We don't know when, how or where right now but we do know that the Lord has given Matt and I a passion for this. Please pray with us as we wait for his leading. And without further ado, please view the videos below to see the couples that first put Ethiopia and her people in my heart!
The first family is the Lehman family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-1yN__fZo
The second family is the Bottomly family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpkT8nWPDPM
3 comments:
praying for God's direction... Adoption is a beautiful thing.... there are no words.a
so gorgeous. thank you for being so out there. praying God's will.
I will pray... oh you made me cry watching those videos! Randy and I have talked on and off about adoption... right now we still feel God has it on the back burner but we will see later on... All those precious babies & kids makes you want to just pour out love on them. Praise the LORD for your tender hearts ... I will pray for His will, direction and provision...how is your Mom doing?
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