Well, I thought I would write one last post and give some closure to this blog. -Reflecting over the past year...
We had begun (officially) our adoption journey in February 2012.
We started the home study process to adopt a boy toddler in the Ethiopia program in April.
On Mother’s day weekend, we were asked to pray and consider adopting a local baby to be born around Thanksgiving.
As the months passed, our home study kept d.r.a.g.g.i.n.g.
On Sept. 27th, we received the devastating news that our journey had ended.
Due to the past and a medical issue we were deemed unsuitable to parent adopted children. Though our hearts are crushed, we are not without hope. We will not adopt, but God has not left us. He has held us close with his love and comforted us with the grace of his omniscience. He knows best. Though his plans do not make complete sense to us, we accept his plan. This journey has not been in vain, for it has kept us clinging to the Gospel, for that is the only True source of peace that we can find.
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We had begun (officially) our adoption journey in February 2012.
We started the home study process to adopt a boy toddler in the Ethiopia program in April.
On Mother’s day weekend, we were asked to pray and consider adopting a local baby to be born around Thanksgiving.
As the months passed, our home study kept d.r.a.g.g.i.n.g.
On Sept. 27th, we received the devastating news that our journey had ended.
Due to the past and a medical issue we were deemed unsuitable to parent adopted children. Though our hearts are crushed, we are not without hope. We will not adopt, but God has not left us. He has held us close with his love and comforted us with the grace of his omniscience. He knows best. Though his plans do not make complete sense to us, we accept his plan. This journey has not been in vain, for it has kept us clinging to the Gospel, for that is the only True source of peace that we can find.
We want to thank you for joining us on our short adoption journey. We want to thank each one of you who prayed for us, encouraged us, and supported us.We really do praise God for placing you in our lives! We appreciate you sharing in our joys and sorrows. God has been so mercifully-gracious and good to us. We look forward to the coming New Year in anticipation of what God will do next. We are holding on to his Promises and feel a peace that can only be supernatural.
As we went through this journey, we came a away with a greater understanding of what God through Christ has done for us. We are amazed. We hope and pray that you too will experience this.
We pray God’s richest blessing on you and yours in the coming New Year and hope that you remembered Jesus in your celebrations this past month. -like we celebrated this joyful season as we remembered God’s greatest gift to us, Jesus! For Jesus has come to save his people from their sins.
We pray God’s richest blessing on you and yours in the coming New Year and hope that you remembered Jesus in your celebrations this past month. -like we celebrated this joyful season as we remembered God’s greatest gift to us, Jesus! For Jesus has come to save his people from their sins.
Adopted,
Steve & Evie
“to redeem those who were under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.” Gal. 4:5
