We truly feel like God is doing some serious work with our family and with our hearts, specifically. Like many couples, we grew up with a strong desire to be parents. We never in a million years would know that we would still be trying to conceive 95 months later (yes, we still track). While infertility has taken away our ability to have biological children, we know that no one is “owed” children. We also know that the deep desire that God has placed on our hearts to be parents can still be achieved whether we get to experience the beautiful gift of carrying a pregnancy or not. We have always been drawn to adoption in a surface way, but after putting the pieces of our broken heart back together (after finding out our infertility is likely permanent and irreversible), we realized that our desire to adopt was a much deeper whisper from God telling me to not stop pursuing parenthood and having a family. We knew that God was able to sit with us in our infertility and allow us to hurt and continue to be comforted and never abandoned by Him, while ALSO pointing us towards hope and healing.
We also have a deep love and respect for the expectant mothers and are proudly pro-life, passionate about truly “loving them both.” Although the timing wasn’t perfect (when is it?), and we certainly didn’t have $40k+ of adoption money lying around, we distinctly remember putting our trust in the Lord to provide the peace in timing, the finances and the ability to say YES to every woman in a crisis pregnancy that we were presented to. And that’s what we have done 72 times now in a little over 6 years. Out of those 72 cases that we presented to, and women and babies that we have prayed over, 5 of them have chosen us to parent their child. We know we have space in our hearts and our home for another sweet baby.
In November of 2024, we prayed, presented, and were (honestly surprisingly) chosen! This expectant mother was looking for a family just like ours, and we were so thankful that we gave our “yes.” God sure trusts our family and we trust in Him fully with our openness and our “yes”, even when it might be just a little bit wild! We know that from the outside looking in, adding another baby in March is going to be a “challenge,” but we are confident and faithful that part of our mission with being confidently open to life in the adoption world means removing the veil of “challenge” to reveal the immense blessing of a new little one joining our family!
When we were chosen to be the parents of this precious little boy, we were just beginning to think about our youngest son turning 1. We had just finalized his adoption a few months earlier, but we were being called to give a big “yes” as this expectant mom was looking for a family just like ours. We are so glad that God gave us the confidence and nudge to present our profile and share our hearts and our story with this expectant mother. She eventually chose u,s and we know that God had a hand in our match!
