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.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Recovering and moving on

What a better day to post this than on Sunday.   Even though we are not worshiping today with our Hope Christian Church family, we know they are with us in spirit.  We truly have been encouraged and glad to have so many people praying for us and lifting us up.   I (Shannon) do understand now why over the last week or more there have been many promptings from God through devotions about forgiveness.  Little did I know that this first round of heading to adopt our first child would end in loss and that eventually forgiveness would be needed.  Are we instantly forgiving people and being completely understanding right now??  No that is not the case.   As has been pointed out to us by so many family and friends we are going to go through the stages of grief as in loosing someone physically.   We definitely fell in love with that baby girl and loved her instantly as any parent would.  Now we must pray she will be taken care of and loved.   We must accept that we will not parent her and that God had us there for another reason.   We will get back on the horse and God will guide us to the next opportunity for adoption and/or birth of a child to begin our family.  We are thankful for having a deepening faith to move on otherwise in these stages of grief we could ge stuck in a pit.  That WILL not happen and I ask for continued prayer in healing for Emily and I.

In Christ's love,
Shannon and Emily

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