Something happened in the legal realm last week that had already happened in our spirits. Our children passed court and now, Moses and Elsabet are legally our babies. We knew they would be in time, we just didn't know how long our wait would be. We are so grateful and just giddy with excitement. We can't really express how truly amazed we are. And Lord willing we will get to go pick them up at the end of July.
So how it went down. We got the call at 6:13 on Thursday the 18th - their 8 month birthday. Jon Ryan had just emailed 5 minutes prior to let Patricia know we would be ready to take her call, in case she needed some encouragement in knowing our availability. (A side note here is ...we love Patricia, she is so gracious towards us in all our excitement - I think we can be a bit overwhelming and slightly high maintenance) But we had already been awake a couple of hours by then. This time of waiting was so so different than our last court date. I was sleeping for one and we were so peaceful and yet so excited.
God grew our faith a lot these past two weeks. Nothing is wasted with the Lord and I really love that. But seriously the Friday after our first court date I listened to "when the tears fall" by Tim Hughes over and over face down crying before the Lord. It was rough. I detached from our kids in a some small but real way. I am so thankful that I have two very wonderful friends that have already walked this road and can minister to me in a very real and understanding way. Then we began praying, seeking and expecting favor and our hearts changed drastically. We grew in praying expectantly and walking faith in that short span probably more than the year prior. God had our attention. It was a challenging and sweet time and I can say we are thankful for it.
I too have been troubled by the many connections that are made between adoption and infertility. I wish we lived in a culture where adoption was just a societal norm because it is the right thing to do. We came to adoption from a place of choice because of God's leading (not infertility) and we in NO WAY feel like our daugthers are anything less than exactly what God had for us. It is hard though to hear people talk about birth children versus adopted children using language like "your own" ("when you have your own children...") to refer only to birth children. My daughters are absolutely mine because God chose us to be a family and that is all that matters. The Bible says nothing about adoption as being related to infertility. God says we, as the Church, are called to care for the 143 million orphans (not to mention the widows - James 1:27) whether you are fertile or infertile, married or single, etc. God loves the fatherless and in Jesus name we should do likewise. There's my rant for you, Christy! Love you...
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent news; I love the photos. Have fun in London en route as well!
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