Adoption

Adoption is defined as the act of legally placing a child with parents other than those to whom a child was born. An adoption order has the effect of severing parental responsibilities and rights of the original parents and transferring those responsibilities (or what I consider gifts) and rights to the adoptive parents.

We are about one week away from starting our classes for this next adoption and we are so eager to get this process going! The class will last only 3 weeks and then we will be in our homestudy process, however, because we have already adopted we might be able to use our current homestudy...not sure of all of that quite yet. It is just exciting to think that we are on the cusp of holding another child in our arms...another child who needs us.

Boy and I always wanted to adopt, regardless of whether or not we could have biological children or not. We did start out our journey of trying to have children with no success. We decided to proceed with what we knew was our calling. After adopting Bug, God began to place this passion in us for bi-racial and African-American children. We just know that our hopes and desires are known and He has the best ultimate plan for us.

Recently I have begun to do alot of thinking on adoption and being adopted primarily because of an adoption class for moms of adopted children and moms who are in the adoption process that I am going to be facilitating at church. I have heard in sermons before the discussion that we have been adopted into God's family. How fitting that is! When we ask Jesus into our hearts we are immediately accepted into His forever family. We are adopted. What hope, what security, what a future we have, what grace we are given.

This child that Boy and I (and Bug too) will adopt into our family knows nothing about us...he/she does not know that they will be home forever, that they can trust us, that they will have safety, security and love in abundance. My greatest hope is that all of my children will come to know the Father and be adopted into His family.

God chose us to belong to Christ before the world was created. He chose us to be holy and without blame in His eyes. He loved us. So He decided long ago to adopt us as His children. He did it because of what Jesus Christ has done. It pleased God to do it. Ephesians 1:4-5

Would you pray for us as we start out this process? We are excited, hopeful and nervous all at the same time! We trust the Lord completely with His plan for our family, but we ask that you be in prayer with us as we start this next adoption. With our last adoption we know that it clearly wasn't the Lord's will, but we know that His will is perfect....so we trust that this time around all will go as it is supposed to go.

Thanks~

K