Hold On Tight

Friends, I need you to pray for me. For us.

The Adoption Road is a winding, wild ride, and you always drive it blindfolded. Sometimes your feel stable and rest your feet on the dash, sometimes you get carsick, sometimes you know something is around the next corner but can't see what it is, and sometimes you get that rollercoaster feeling of the road dropping out from under you. I'm always thankful I know and trust the Driver.

Some of you know that we may have a placement in the near future. Through a series of circumstances that have God's handprints all over it, we've been in communication for the last month with a preganant girl named Geri who is looking for an adoptive family. This Saturday morning we are going to meet her for the first time. These first meetings are full of so many emotions that its hard to know where to begin. The bottem line is, whether she chooses us or decides to look for someone else, we pray that she will continue down the courageous road of choosing life for her baby.

To say our hopes aren't up would be a lie. We pray that this is the baby that God has for us. We hope that she meets us, loves us, and feels like we are the perfect dad, mom, and big sister for her baby. But we can honestly say that we want God's best, and that may mean more waiting and the temporary heart-ache of giving up a dream.

Every adoption is a beautiful display of God's miraculous grace. When you consider all the people invloved, all the legal issues, all the variables, all the emotions, it is phenominally amazing that any adoptions ever come to fruition. God loves adoption. He brings them to pass. He builds families in the way He chooses and in His time. We have tasted His goodness through the pain of a failed adoption and through the unending joy of a successful adoption, and we know He will be good and gracious to us through whatever lies before us now. We'll just keep holding on tight!

Here's some specific prayer requests...

Pray that Geri would be comfortable with us, that our hearts would be at peace, and that Sarah would be a good girl (We are meeting at a restaurant and she has such a hard time sitting still!), and pray that we would be able to communicate our hearts in an open and loving way.

Thank you for holding us before the Lord, Friends.

I'll let you know how it goes!