This last year has been crazy. Crazy is probably an understatement. The amount of rawness that we've experienced is insane, but good.
In one year...
We sent off our dossier to Ethiopia, happy and content with our decision to with requesting a healthy boy, 0-12 months.
Quickly, our eyes were opened to a much wider need. So, in the last year we widened our parameters.
We wanted to be ready to fill a need.
Our Ethiopian adoption was fully funded. Glory Glory! But...we knew something was up because God never gave us money before we needed it..so we wondered...why were we funded so soon...
Well, let me tell you what happened next...
We were introduced to our son, who in fact, doesn't live in Ethiopia at all, he lives in a country on the coast of West Africa. We love him
We jumped into doing two adoptions at the exact same time. For two children on the opposite sides of Africa. Crazy.
Our little man in West Africa, he's almost 3...yep..didn't fit in that 0-12 month original "plan" for our life.
But then again...not much in the last year has. But it is perfect.
When we were getting ready to send off our dossier last year, in my gut, I knew God was going to do something huge during our wait.
I selfishly hoped I'd get to travel to Africa (which I did)
But He did way more.
He showed us His plan for our adoptions, which looked totally different that what we ever imagined.
We prayed for God to make Himself BIG to us, and He did.
He blew mountains out of our path, and continues to do so...
A year ago June, we'd been waiting 1 month for our Ethiopian little guy!
February of this year..we're adopting..AGAIN!
Hmm..I wonder what we'll look this time next year...
1 comment:
I love this so much!! Isn't God awesome? To show is His plans in ways we could never have imagined or thought up on our own! Excited for your family!!!
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