Our Journey Starts New

November 2011

For about a year and a half we have been praying that God would bless us with a child. We never imagined having any trouble pursuing this dream, but after a year of seemingly getting no where, we decided to start pursuing infertility treatment. Though we have not been told we cannot have children, the odds are not in our favor. This has been a very difficult journey, which has led us to start the adoption process. Adoption is something we had talked about even before we were married. Our desire is to be parents and raise children to teach them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. At times we wonder if it would have been easier to be told we are unable to have kids so that we could have started the adoption process sooner, but we know God’s timing is perfect, as is His plan for us. We are in the beginning stages of the adoption, we have finished reading the manual, and have started the Adoptive Planning Questionnaire. Once the APQ is finished we will apply for our Home Study. From there we will start working on our profile to be shown to potential birth mothers. We are very excited to have the opportunity to be blessed with a child, and know as hard or as scary and tough the process might be in the end God's will, will be done and we hope we are able to glorify him in every way.

Monday, July 30, 2012

God's Amazing Provision

Sunday July 29th,
We enter the day feeling tired and emotionally drained. Shannon had looked up a church in the area and we both were needing some encouragement. Church was great! We were able to relax and enjoyed a nice lunch together afterward. Then we started trying to figure out what we were going to do next on our journey. We had our hotel room for Sunday night and were needing to decide if we'd stay there another 3 nights. We had already been there 9 nights and were getting a little tired of it and it was getting to be very expensive. I need to give a little backstory to show just how amazing this day ended!
Shannon has a couple people he has worked with over the years at Cargill that live in VA, only about 3 hours from where the birth mom lives. One night while they were out walking they ran into a family that has a summer home there. Come to find out they are less than 20 minutes from our hotel in Manassas. With only hearing our story they offer up their summer home to us to stay at. A nice quiet place in the mountains (which was sounding great with all the busyness of the city). The disadvantage was that it would be a three hour drive if the birth mom wanted to meet with us, and it would take us 3 hours to get to the hospital once we received the call. So here we are weighing out all our options, stay at the hotel 3 more nights or move to the mountains three hours away. Stay? Go? There were so many pro's and con's to both options. We decided we should talk to our social worker and get her opinion. So as we are about to call Shannon looks at his phone (which hadn't rung all day) and he has 2 voicemail messages. We listen to them and are completely floored. It's Andrea (the family with the summer home, and whom we met with on Saturday). At church she was looking for some way to help us out until the baby was born, she started sharing our situation and found a family who had a place for us to stay! Again only about 15 minutes from our hotel and closer to where the baby is going to be born! So once the shock of that call subsided we listened to the other voicemail, this one was from the woman Andrea had talked to at church. We made plans to meet her in a couple hours. She shared her story with us of how she was adopted! God is so good. So here we sit today, in complete amazement of God's great miracles and providing for us at just the right time! Thank you for your prayers we know none of this has happened by chance.
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