Over the last several weeks M and I have been hearing from various people how courageous we are for taking on this adoption. M warned me after she went to the doctor that we needed to make sure we were being humble throughout this process. It would be very easy to hear someone tell you …
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Patience
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. -Romans 12:12 I’ve realized over the past two months that my patience has varying limits for different things. I always thought I was pretty patient, and for most things, I still think I am. ~Waiting in line at Walmart ~Waiting for Josie to stop …
Pray. Wait. Trust.
Last Friday felt like such an important day. We worked out all our confusion on the application to adopt our little guy, got our documents notarized, and submitted them to our agency. Those documents then went to the adoption agency in our boy’s country and will be presented to the government. So now we …
Purposeful and Steady
It has been quite amazing how things have so quickly turned from ‘planning for our adoption’ to ‘we are adopting’. I’m so thankful for all the work and preparations we made ahead of time because already I am finding myself unable to sleep with all that is swirling in my head. To recap where we …
Stubborn
I believe that God totally, absolutely, intentionally give us more than we can handle. Because this is when we surrender to Him and He takes over, proving Himself by doing the impossible in or lives.” – Katie Davis Majors, Kisses from Katie January 5, 2021 You know, I’ve always harbored the hope that someday, …
Opposite
“When this adoption is over we’re getting a truck!” That was the statement D made as we drug, branch by branch, the remnants of the newly sawed down tree into the burn pile. At first those words come off as almost bitter, to someone who doesn’t know him, they likely would. But knowing my …
Unrelated
Typically I try to make these blog posts somewhat cohesive, attempting to connect my spastic thinking into something that I can share in a way that makes sense. This is not one of those times and I’m sorry. This time, if you choose to keep reading, you’re getting my jumbled mess of thoughts and …
New ✔️’s
It’s been a minute since I’ve given you all an update of where we are on our progress, but little by little, even in the midst of a pandemic, we are checking items off our list. I first posted this specific checklist last November, so if you’ve been keeping track of our (tentative) timeline, we’re …
Strangely Beautiful
Do you ever just sit back, contemplating the days you just lived through, and marvel at how strangely beautiful and completely ironic life can be? Like the way exceptionally different emotions can come at you, one after another, or all at once. How sadness mixes with joy, and feelings of loss remain while you’re filled …
10%
Hey there! Devin here, just had something on my heart that I wanted to write a blog post about. Hope you enjoy it. 10% of something does not seem like a lot when you think about it. Let’s say you have 10 cookies and I asked you to give me 1 of them. You might …
The Other Side of Fear 