The wait has been long.
For our second adoption, we were fully ready to experience a longer wait – knowing that our first match happened surprisingly quick and given the challenges that we’ve all been facing since the start of the pandemic.
However, we didn’t expect the wait to be quite this long. We don’t think that anyone would be surprised to hear that our faith has been tested and that we lost some of our hope over the past 15 months. It’s been challenging, and we started to wonder if this was truly the time to grow our family.
These were our fears, our doubts. They were not a reflection of who God is or what His plans are for our family. His ways are higher. His timing is perfect.
This week, we finally got the call. We’re matched.
If we left it at that, if that was the only news, we would be praising God for His work in our lives. But that’s not all He had in store for us.
The call we got this week was not only the chance to grow our family, but to have the opportunity to bring home the child that we have no doubt was always meant to be ours – our son, Ada’s brother.
The wonderful woman who chose us almost five years ago to adopt her daughter has gifted us with this amazing chance again and is trusting us to adopt her son.
Words have been hard to find this week to express our abundant joy, but we have definitely heard God whisper that we can trust in Him. That He has been here all along.
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While there is no doubt in our mind that this is our child and that he will be joining our family in January, we still have to close the gap in funding that we need to bring him home.
The total cost for this adoption is almost double what we had budgeted for our second adoption, and we would be so appreciative of any help that you could give.
We love you!
Katherine & Andrew