Showing posts with label Adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adoption. Show all posts

Saturday, June 8, 2013

How My Heart Aches...



".....aches for what?", many may ask.

My heart aches to hold the hand of a child I have never met, but who I already know... who I automatically think of each morning, wondering if he had a good sleep and a nutritious breakfast... who I desire more than anything to hold, letting him know I will never, ever leave... who I pray for each night... who I already call son...

Yep, it's true: 
And, I am unabashedly and uncontrollably unashamed.

Our beautiful boy awaits us in what is truly the heart of Africa, knowing we are coming for him -- 
but I wonder, does he understand that we are doing ALL we can, each and every day, to get him to us? 
does he know that we dream of him, talk about him as though he is already here - only to have stepped out of the room for a brief moment?
does he know his sisters can't wait to spoil him? 
and that his brothers are eager to teach him to ride a bike and wrestle?
and that his father finds pride in having him take his last name?
and that his mother... well, that his mother is in love with him even though she's never met him?

It is our prayer that you will join us on this beautiful journey - one that we have traveled before, only in a different time and a different land.
 Travel along with us as we bring home our beautiful African son and show him the love of the Father through becoming a Galyean.

Monday, November 17, 2008

BEN'S 3RD GOTCHA DAY

Turn the sidebar music off!!!

HAPPY THIRD GOTCHA DAY, BENJAMIN!!!

WE LOVE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

Below you will find a video that I had been wanting to create for Ben since the day we arrived home. However, with life, a husband, 4 kids, well.... you get the picture. It didn't happen. However, our new pastor, Cameron, invited us to share our testimony and Ben's story yesterday in both services. After using up about 2 boxes of kleenexes, we got through it and it went beautifully. I pray that God will bring his heart of adoption to many people through our little one's profound story. If you want to hear it sometime, email me privately. I have a neat "journal entry" that explains it all and I'll send it to you. Just have some tissue handy. BTW, the video below is pretty long, so give yourself several minutes if you choose to watch it.

A FEW FACTS
*If 7% of the the world’s Christians adopted only 1 parentless child, the world’s orphan problem would be solved.
* If we put all the of the world’s orphans in a single file line, it would wrap around the world 2.5 times.
*There are over 400,000 churches in America, but only 113, 000 children are adopted annually.


WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT
*www.worldorphans.org
*www.hopefororphans.org
*Rick Warren -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zQYA6OgyuM
*John Piper - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgNXQ2CazUg

THE GOOD NEWS:

Romans 8:15 (NASB)--parentheses mine

"For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba (meaning quite literally, "Daddy")! Father!"

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

SAME STORY, ANOTHER MOM'S HEART

http://moorefam7.terapad.com/
Check out photos of Ben and Mariah on Mariah's Mom's blog......
Such a sweet family! Sometimes I feel so unbelievably blessed how God has moved in my life and in the life of my son.........