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A Journey for Love


Welcome family and friends to our official adoption blog! This is an extremely new thing for us, so please bear with us as we "learn the ropes". We want to be able to keep you involved in this amazing journey that we are on. We are on a "A journey for Love". A Journey to meet the little boy in Ethiopia that God has destined to be our child.
So, for my first entry I figured I better just start at the beginning, give you a little insight on how this journey began. Luckily I wrote down my thoughts when this all first began, so here we go!
I wrote this on February 24th...

"These past two weeks have been an absolute whirlwind! And more concentrated in these last few days…. God has taken me to places that I have never been before.
It all started with a question… “What if we adopted our third baby?” BAM! Out of no where these thoughts and feelings come flooding inside me! What if we adopted? That would just be crazy! How much does that cost? I wouldn’t even know where to start… and on and on the excuses kept coming. So, I pushed it aside. But day after day, I couldn’t get the thought of adoption out of my mind.
A few days pass and I find myself on FB (surprise, surprise!) And the company “The Vintage Pearl” had shared a post from one of her friends who had adopted 2 Chinese girls. This post was an entry from her blog. So I went to this blog and I read more blogs than I would care to share. My eyes were bleeding by the time I was done. I cried several times while reading her step by step account through her families process. I was amazed.
I left her blog sight and immediately started doing research online…… if you have never researched adoption, I can tell you that I was very overwhelmed by all that is involved and all the steps. I didn’t know where to start! I don’t know anyone personally who has adopted, so I have no one to reach out to. Then I remembered the blog I read. This women and her family live in OK. So, I went back to her blog to see if I could contact her somehow. I couldn’t find an email or FB link so I just decided to post a comment on her most recent blog and hope that she sees it. Here is how it read:
Hello, my name is Rachel... my husband and I are just embarking on the journey to adopt. The Lord just dropped this desire in us about a month ago and we are trying to research and get all the info we possibly can! I am extremely overwhelmed and wanted to see if you could guide me to the right people/places to get the best info on the process. I live in OK as well, and I really feel like the Lord guided my steps to get me to your blog. My email is velocityyouth@yahoo.com (we are youth pastors) If you could email me when you get a chance and just send me in the right direction I would sooooo appreciate it! God bless!
Within the hour she had sent me an email. She said that she would be happy to meet with us…. She lives in Tulsa! She also said that her church (Victory Christian) was having a free Adoption Seminar on March 3rd if we would like to attend and then we could meet after! Praise the Lord! That’s all I can say, is when you let Him lead then he WILL LEAD!
So, I know that this will be a long journey, with much waiting, money raising, and tears to come, but we are going to get the baby from Ethiopia that God has chosen for us! We are coming to get you baby! I am going to be completely honest and say the I am terrified, but so happy and excited all at the same time. I read a quote yesterday that made me cry:
“Obedience isn’t the absence of fear. It’s doing it scared"
This is me! I am scared, Lord, but I am so ready!"

And that brings us to today, less than a month later, and we have officially begun. Yesterday we received our adoption approval and the paperwork needed to continue the process. It all feels so real.... it brings tears to my eyes.
What an amazing journey we are on, and it is only the beginning!

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