February Update

I am a lousy blogger!! We got our wait list number on Feb 1st and I am just now posting it....

38!!!

Four precious ones were matched with their forever families :) We only moves up three spots because a family that already had a referral lost that referral so they had to go back on the list. This is no doubt difficult for them, but they had a wonderful perspective that can only be God given. The child's birth mother changed her mind so that little one will be going back home. After waiting for so long and then finally getting "the call" you would think there would be a mountain of disappointment, however the family is praising God today that a family that didn't have to be broken was not. That is Jesus my friends.

Adoption is less about "getting" a child, and much more about meeting a need that the Bible calls us to meet. I don't mean to take the humanness out of the equation, but I just mean in my heart I wish there was no need for adoption. I WANT Grayson, but it hurts my heart that his sweet life has to start with so much pain and brokenness. This is the world we live in so we have to wait and wait and champion the cause of the orphan. The most vulnerable group in the world is the most innocent. So, I will do my best to wait well and pray for the other waiting families, the children, the birth parents, the government, and anybody else God puts on my heart.

This is my jam right now and it makes me cry but in a happy/excited/sad kind of way. watch it. Listen. Trust me, it's good. I don't know this family but it was the best version of this song going so enjoy. I'm not saying it will make you want to adopt a child, but if it does you can thank me later :)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1scU5hv6azs&feature=related