As we get so close to finishing our profile needed for our agency for our domestic adoption, we wanted to send out a little update and ask for some specific prayers.
Making the profile has been time consuming, a little draining and a lot of fun. Time consuming because I am entirely too picky about it. Draining because it is writing letters to our baby's birth mother and, surprise....that is not an easy thing to do. Fun because I love designing it and seeing it all come together.
We only have a few more tweeks to make to the book and it will be sent off to get printed. We have our applications to agencies and our home study all ready and waiting to go, so once we send it all to our consultant, we will start the process of viewing birth mother profiles and requesting for birth mothers to see our profile. Talk about nerve-wracking!
Through this time of preparing the profile, I have felt God working in my heart and opening my eyes. Giving me a compassion for these mothers who so selflessly look beyond themselves to their baby's best interest. He has laid it on my heart to pray for these brave women....especially one in particular. We don't know her yet, but God does and He wants us to pray for her. She will be giving our family one of the most precious gifts....and losing one at the same time.
So, we would love if you would join with us in lifting up our child's birth mother in prayer. Pray for her health and safety. Pray for her heart. Pray that we might be able to minister to her in some way when we are matched. Pray for our baby...for his or her health and safety. Pray that he or she would feel loved before he or she is even born and that God would have a hold on that little heart from the very beginning. Eddy and I would also love if you could pray for us and Grant and Quincey....that God would prepare our hearts to walk this out in a way that would bring Him much glory. Adoption is messy. It takes God turning painful things into beautiful things. Pray that He would do that in our child's life. Please also pray for financial provision. God has been so, so faithful to provide and we trust 100% that He will continue to be faithful in that.
