Little Family, Big
God
Little Family, Big God. I suppose “little” is relative,
right? I mean, a hundred years ago, a little family meant they only had six
kids. Nowadays when you have three or four kids, it seems more like a big
family.
And that brings us to the purpose of starting this blog. We
want to document our journey to bring home a new little person to our family.
“Bring home?” you ask. Don’t you mean “have?” And why so many “quotations”?
Just because. And no. We mean BRING HOME. We’re done with these kids that all
look alike. I mean, come on, we have two Jody clones and an Alison clone.
Enough with that, already. Jeez!
If you haven’t figured it out by now (heaven help you), we
have decided to adopt! We are beyond excited and scared and reticent all at the
same time. We keep
being led back to God’s word.
James 1:27, calls us to “look after orphans and widows in their
distress.” We know that these
little ones are so close to the Father’s heart and we have arms to hug and beds
for them to sleep in and love enough to care for them. Will we do it perfectly? Uh, no! Have you met our three kids? But, we will do it with the help of the
Father who accepts us as totally imperfect, loves us, and adopts us into His
family.
Called
This has happened quickly but also started a long time ago. For
Jody, it started at age 17, in a village in Mexico where God broke his heart
and he fell in love with people that didn’t look anything like him, or speak
the same language as him. For Alison, it started as a little girl when all she
ever wanted to be was a Mommy!
Congo
We have gone back and forth whether we should adopt internationally or domestically, adopt from Uganda or Congo or South America or Puerto Rico or Denver. A series of thoughts and events have led us to adopt from Congo or the
Democratic Republic (that’s never a good start to name your country) of The Congo, or whatever you want to call it. It’s that giant country in Africa where
kids are orphaned by the millions (5 million to be exact) and adopting from
there can literally save someone’s life.
Crazy?
We don’t think so. Although this is probably the toughest
decision we’ve ever made, we know it will be the most rewarding.
Commit
Inasmuch as we know that we are being called to do this, we are fully aware that we cannot do this alone! We need friends and family and even people we do not know yet to come along side us and support us. We need a lot of prayer! Please commit to pray for us during this journey and for this child waiting for us in Congo!
Inasmuch as we know that we are being called to do this, we are fully aware that we cannot do this alone! We need friends and family and even people we do not know yet to come along side us and support us. We need a lot of prayer! Please commit to pray for us during this journey and for this child waiting for us in Congo!
“I always questioned whether
I was ready to adopt and then I realized no child was ready to be an orphan.” - Author Unknown
