The Process

Things are going well. We've hired an adoption attorney in Marysville who works with A Woman's Friend, so he seems to know what he's doing and is able to hold our hands through the process.

"J" said that she felt the baby move for the first time on Friday - - it's so exciting! I've checked into some adoption counseling for her in the town where she lives. Their crisis pregnancy center offers free counseling to her and she said she has already met with the counselor / director.

She is still with her boyfriend - - they live together at a friend's house. He has read the e-mails that she and I have sent to each other and he said that he felt really good about the decision when he saw how excited we were about the coming of this baby.

It's amazing to me to look back on the sequence of events that have taken place and recognize God's infinite and intricate design of it all; how He placed people and circumstances in our path in specific times and specific places along the way.

A "by chance" visit with one family member created a "by chance" conversation with them. That conversation created a "by chance" conversation between them and another family member. A few months prior to these occurrences, my cousin became pregnant while using a birth control method where she had less than a 1% chance of getting pregnant. In between these events, we were told that we would not be eligible to put in our application at any adoption agency and we were put "on hold".

Looking back, it makes it difficult to not acknowledge the beautiful works of art that He is painting on our canvases. What miracles! God is so much bigger than we could have ever imagined and He should be honored for that. We thank Him every day for the health that he has so graciously bless us with, the love that we have been given to share with one another and the light that He shines at the end of the tunnel when all other light seems to disappear and we are left in darkness.

Please continue to pray for "J" as she continues on her journey through life. Pray that she is given a sense of peace and contentment in her decision to give us this indescribable gift and that she continues to receive the guidance and support that she requires.



"Absolutely everything...got started in Him and finds purpose in Him..."
~ Colossians 1:16 (The Message)

"Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
~ Psalm 139:23-24

"He not only perfectly understands our case and our problem, but He has morally, actively, finally solved it."
~ P.T. Forsyth