We are expecting!!!

We are expecting!!! Yes, you read that correctly.  For those of you who don’t know (and many of you don’t) our family has started the process to adopt a child from the Democratic Republic of Congo.  This journey toward this decision started 5 years ago when we traveled on a short term mission trip with our church to Liberia, West Africa.  There God broke our hearts for the plight of the orphan.  Our partnership with the Bishop Judith Craig Children’s Village in Monrovia, Liberia has been a blessing to our family.  Through much study, prayer, and wrestling with God (and each other) we feel moved to grow our family through adoption.  This has been a long process filled with both joy and pain.  We will share more of how we got to this point in future blogs.  God has both closed and opened opportunities for us and so here we are at this point…adopting from the Congo.  We still have many unanswered questions, but are trusting that God will fulfill his promise from Psalm 68:5-6…Father to the fatherless, defender of widows-this is God, whose dwelling is holy… God places the lonely into families.  SO, we are expecting! Expecting what?

• expecting our lives will be turned upside down as God multiplies our family
• expecting God will do more than we can even ask or imagine
• expecting our relationship with our heavenly Father to grow richer and deeper
• expecting many tears and much laughter along the way
• expecting God will show Himself as One who can be trusted