Never Say Never!

The following letter was written about Feb 18th, 2007. It provides proof that life is an adventure that you can not write in advance!

All I can say is that for several years I thought our 3 boys were more than enough children. However, it has recently become obvious that our family unit was not complete. Therefore, Guy and I (and hopefully the kids) will be going to Kazakhstan sometime in the summer to adopt sibling girls. The process is going full steam ahead with contracts signed, paperwork filed, letters written and of course, money paid. Our whole family is very excited and it is already hard to wait. But, how did this happen?

Sometimes events come about in unexpected ways. There are some pieces to the puzzle that make sense now in retrospect. Guy has always wanted a girl in the family, but I really didn’t want another baby especially as the boys have gotten older and into school. But, over the last year and a half I have been the song leader at church for all the kids from 3-12 years old. It is the best job and the girls have really been melting my heart, especially the 3-4 year olds. A couple of them will just come and hug me out of the blue and even my friends’ 4 year old will run and jump into my arms. My friend is so amazed at her daughter’s attachment. Well, I guess they all sensed something before I did.

About 3 weeks ago, I was just sitting and thinking and then the thought came, “I keep telling myself that if one of those little girls needed a home I would take them in in a second so is that really true?” Well, many tears later, it was really true and not only that, Guy and I both felt that our family was missing not one, but two girls. So we fasted and we prayed and I can honestly say that it was so obviously the right thing to do that I can’t believe that I didn’t figure it out sooner. But, we all know timing is everything and God works in mysterious ways.

So then, for a little over a week we started the painstaking process of trying to find our girls. To make a long story short, there was a ton of research done with the local international adoption agency and online. After sorting through all the information on U.S. adoptions VS international and then going through the different countries, we realized that our girls are somewhere in Kazakhstan. We will be working with an agency in Illinois called Adoption Ark. They are really great and the best part is that the many people involved in this process feel the same way we do. They know that God loves all his children and that He will lead us to our girls so we can bring them home. We will be going to Kazakhstan not knowing who the girls are and will be picking them when we get assigned an orphanage. That takes a tremendous amount of faith, but again so many adoption workers and families have told us that when you are shown your children (and they do give you choices) you will know without a doubt who are meant to be yours. A heart braking thing not to take everyone home that is for sure. We have already cried many tears for the children who will not come to our family.

So there you go, the long and the short of it. It will be a hectic 2007, but life is just not the same without a good adventure every now and then. We pray for our girls every night that we will be lead to them and that God will keep them safe and loved until we get there.

Deb