Conversation with Noah;
"Noah who is the tallest person you know"?
"Daddy is"!
"Well, is there anyone taller than Daddy"?
" Yeah, there are Giants".
LOL
For those of you who haven't heard our adoption testimony I thought it'd be fun to type it out here.
Way back in the day Mike and I were married and new Christians for about 3 yrs, and had not gotten pregnant.
We were so poor, a baby wasn't high priority as we struggled to pay our bills.
Then on New Years day, while Mike was at work, I listened to a radio program that explained adoption.
And, although I never considered it before, I bowed my heart and prayed to the Lord asking if this adoption thing was for us. The reply was "Yes".
How excited I was to tell Mike when he got home.
As soon as he walked in the door I proclaimed, "Honey, the Lord has told me we are to adopt".
Silence from Mike, then "The Lord hasn't told me that".
My utmost crushing.
Now, at this time I was doing a Bible study, that taught on not nagging husbands.
Therefore I dropped it with Mike and began to look to the Lord for direction.
Every New Year's Day I would come to Mike and remind him the Lord had told me, for 5 years.
This was a tyring time in my life, as I could not let my heart become hard towards Mike.
I didn't have a career, as I knew I always wanted to be a stay-at home Mom.
Time passed slowly as I worked as a Nanny for a couple different families.
Then at the end of a work day I almost passed out, the Mother I worked for put me to bed, and when I gain strentgh I drove myself home. Something was wrong with me as my stomach cramped in pain.
Mike took me to the emergency room that didn't have a clue. I crawled on the waiting room floor waiting to be seen. I was 6 weeks pregnant and the baby was stuck in my fallopian tube, it had burst and I was bleeding internally.
That was a hard recovery, but the Lord showed me every moment how he was my best friend, Savior I knew, best friend I needed.
About 6 months later, Mike came home from church with a prayer request for a lady at church that was going through the same thing. Then, Mike asked me how I was doing with my experience. I told him truthfully how I believe God was moving us from plan A to plan B.
I had already decided I'd not do invtro, as many of my friends suffered from that route.
Mike knew plan B was adoption, and that night after a Men's meeting he sat down with our Pastor and explained our situation. Pastor asked Mike " What is in you heart that would keep you from loving someone else's child as your own"?
Mike told me that in that moment the Lord touched his heart, and the scales fell off. He said it was second to Salvation, to have the Lord touch him that way.
Well, when Mike came home that evening, and told me, I was in "wait and see" mode.
But, sure enough the next day we both agreed on an adoption agency, he called while at work, and I went online while at work. The end of that work day Mike picked me up, and asked what country i was leaning towards. The Ukraine was listed as the least expensive, and quickest time frame. I told him, and he showed me his notepad where he had circled the Ukraine as his choice. From that day it took us two years to bring Noah home. He came home on Christmas day, and that is the day he became an American citizen. It's also the day Mike and I were married.
I share as this as an encouragement to all who have waited or are waiting, that it can be done.
With the Lord leading all things are possible. So keep looking up !
