Our Detour

We have prayed for wisdom and our Heavenly Father has answered our prayers. Our journey to adopt has taken a detour. We are now pursuing to adopt a child from Ethiopia. Why Ethiopia? Why not? Seriously, the plight of Ethiopia is the same as Haiti it's just a lot farther away. Also, we have already been through the trans-racial questions and counseling so it only seems natural to continue with a trans-racial adoption. We know that God has called us to adopt an orphan and that calling has not changed just because Haiti adoptions are closed. We don't want to stay focused only on Haiti where we currently can not adopt and not give another orphan a chance to have a forever family by the end of this year.

There are so many blessings that we see now during our recent months leading up to our detour. We had not contracted with our former agency yet due to the lack of funds and now that has allowed us to change agencies without losing a great deal of money. We have been able to switch to an agency that specializes more in Ethiopia. Also because our home study was complete she can easily switch it to Ethiopia without a lot of extra work. God always has a plan for us and sometimes HE doesn't always reveal all the “whys” when something detours our journey. Duet. 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” We are trusting the secret things are with God and moving forward to the plan He has revealed to us.

At first when we were told by our former agency that we should look into other adoption programs it was really hard to swallow. I did want to ask a lot of whys. Why can't we have another child by natural conception... it sure would be easier than this roller coaster? Why did the “baby boy” come into our lives for only a short period to only leave us heart broken shortly after? (read our very first blog last August). Why can't we adopt a child from Haiti? So after throwing myself a short pity party, it all started becoming clear to me again. It's God's story not mine and I have to let HIM continue being the author of this adoption story. God is stretching us and growing us and preparing us for the child he has for us. Everyday I am learning to Trust Him more and more. Here is something that I read this week on a friend's facebook profile that really opened my eyes: “When God takes something from your grasp, he is not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.”

Please continue praying for us. We have submitted our new application to Children's Hope International and should hear back from them next week. To get started with this agency and move on with the I600A we need to raise about $1800 which is about half of what we were needing to continue with the previous agency. Praise the Lord.

Our God is so Big and that's why we know that he can still bring our child home by the end of 2010!

We need 75 people to donate $25 to help is get moving forward again. Please pray about sponsoring our child to come home.

Spring is coming so when you start doing your spring cleaning please let us know if you have anything to donate for our spring yard sale.

God is good All the time! ALL the time God is good!