There is someone very dear to me who seeks someone to 'blame' for us adopting. I mean every.time.we.adopt. It's not necessarily about the children or where they are from, as it is a lack of understanding. Why would we choose to put ourselves through that? Why would we want more children?...
Testimony Tuesday is dedicated to the stories of our grant recipients. May you be encouraged by their stories….
Our adoption journey began after complicated pregnancies. Although we were blessed with two healthy children, the news of not being able to have more was difficult for us. We began asking God to show us His will for our family. He led our hearts to adoption and in June of 2006 we welcomed Micah Henry Myeong home from South Korea.
You can tell that this author, Karen Henry Clark, has been through the adoption journey herself. Sweet Moon Baby is a wonderful adoption story. Clark bases this story on her journey to adopt her daughter. It takes the process of an adoption from China, and puts it in a fairytale or folk tale form. I think it is a wonderful way to approach talking to little ones about adoption – I would gear it for ages 3-5. You...
Testimony Tuesday is dedicated to the stories of our grant recipients. May you be encouraged by their stories….. God has done mighty things in our lives – each being called in different ways. God has brought our family on an incredible journey. A journey of enabling us to be able to become a mom, a dad and a brother to a little 2-year-old girl in Ethiopia. Wow! We have been carried through many of the stages of the adoption process...
I nervously sat across the room from Kaylan, the 13-year-old pregnant girl who had chosen to meet my husband and me after seeing our adoption profile at an agency. her belly was bulging under her rocker t-shirt and she was checking us out through her platinum-dyed bangs. I had my iPhone on record in my bag, hoping to get every word she said on record so I could go back and...
I was always that person that said, “Lord, I thank You that You call other folks to adopt older children…but it could never be me!” Funny how that works, isn’t it? In April 2009 the Lord gripped my heart for children aging out, forever...
To those of you who have adopted, you have probably had to read state-required materials which talk all about attachment, bonding, and the like. The main goal behind such literature (in my mind) is to give adoptive parents tools to create a relationship that is unnatural (ie two strangers coming together through the process of adoption) into something that is natural (the bond between parent and child). Because of these readings, and before adopting our children, I wondered to myself,...
Testimony Tuesday is dedicated to bringing you stories of our grant recipients. May you be encouraged by them…. As a family of ten, we weren’t necessarily feeling a need to grow our family, however, God was. Therefore, in obedience to what He was leading us do for His glory, our journey into adoption began in spring, 2010. He opened our eyes to the beginning of His plan with the earthquake in Haiti and the helplessness we felt...
After reading this post by Donna at Our Heart’s Journey, I knew I had to share it with you. Thank you, Donna, for giving me permission to do so! And for sharing your heart. Yes, I admit it. I love my adopted children “differently.” I do. I can’t help it. They didn’t “come from” my body. We do not share the same DNA. Or the same skin tone or the same hair color. In the adoption community, these are not things we try to ignore. Overlook or down...
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