No not THAT anniversary....Nathan and I will be married 7 years come this April. Oh BLESSED month of April. It holds many meaningful things for us. But I will get back to that in a minute.
TODAY...is our 1 year anniversary our adoption journey's first step. I hesitate to say the word "began" because if you know me and you know our story, you know it REALLY all began years ago when God gave one teenage girl a dream that would SHAKE her to her CORE and change her life!
One year ago today Nathan took me out to dinner. It was a much needed date night and he took me to the spot we use to always hit before we had kiddos. I had been talking about adoption a lot that past year but the couple months leading up to that night I had felt led to pray for Nathan. I wanted him to be on the same page as me, not because I was initiating it but because his heart was prepared and touched by the Lord. So I stepped back ...and prayed. Little did I know that God had already been speaking to Nathan's heart. Only a few months later Nathan would take my hand and say " I think it's time to start looking into the adoption process".
We prayed about our direction as we had felt a strong pull twords China. Confirmation after confirmation encouraged us that , YES, this was a God placed desire. We will follow His voice faithfully. He knows where our little one is. The problem was the WAIT...or as I like to call it the wait to wait. We would have to wait tell we were 29 1/2 to even be allowed to start the paperwork side of things. I am happy to say a year later and we are just around the corner!! In April Nathan turns 29 1/2 and we will start our home study! I can't believe I can finally say THIS YEAR we will start our home study. THIS YEAR we will have our dossier logged in to China. THIS YEAR we very well may KNOW who our Selah is and from THAT POINT on it can be a matter of months before she is home! OH. WOW.
I know I am looking at this glass half full right now....remind me of this when I am in the thick of the REAL PAINFUL waiting....K?
But.... after waiting one LOOONG, emotional, trying, opposition filled yet BLESSED year, I will CELEBRATE our 1 year anniversary of our adoption journey first step!
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Yay and whoo-hoo!!!! Boy do I remember, Alisa - seeing you with this desire even when we were very young. What a blessing to see you and your husband with the same desire to love an orphan far away and make her part of your family!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary...there will be more anniversaries to celebrate soon :)
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