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Why China?
Many people
have ask me "why China". There are so many children in the
United States that need homes. That is really true. There
are many children all over the world who do not have
homes.
My journey to Hannah began the summer of 1999. I had a
dream about someone coming down a staircase and handing me
a baby. In my mind I just knew it was Asian. Later that
day we went to Bush Gardens and I began telling Jeff and
the kids, about my dream. Kristin who was 13 at the time,
piped up and said, "that’s weird, I had a dream like that
also." We laughed and continued to have fun at Bush
Gardens.
I pray with a group of ladies every week, and brought this
to their attention, asking for their prayers. In the
months that followed, God would continue to prod my heart
about China, even having our prayer team pray specifically
for China. I began to mention it to Jeff who, immediately
said NO. He felt our biological children were just about
to be grown, and didn’t really want to go through the
whole little baby process again. We continued to pray.
In the year 2003, God spoke to my heart that her name was
to be Hannah. God’s timing is so unusual at times. I was
still wrestling if God was even in the whole thing since
Jeff was still not into the idea yet. But, I wrote it
down, and began to call her Hannah. God always works in
His time frame. We continued to pray and seek God, my
heart feeling more and more drawn to this child, I did not
know. Later that year, I prayed to God about Jeff. I told
God that if He had called me to adopt Hannah, I needed him
to tell Jeff. I had decided not to bring it up again. Left
it there at the feet of Jesus. About 2 or 3 months later,
Jeff went to a pastor’s conference in Toronto CA. All week
he was surrounded by Chinese little girls. James Robinson
even had a special program all week featuring the orphaned
girls of China. He seen them tied to potty chairs, some
where asking for their mommies. To put it bluntly, God got
Jeff’s attention. During one of the sessions, the Holy
Spirit spoke to Jeff’s heart that he needed to let me
adopt the baby, because it was something God was doing in
me. Isn’t Jesus great! He did in one week, what I had not
been able to do in 3 years. He called me, crying, and told
me we could adopt the baby. That was the beginning of
really realizing Hannah would soon be in our lives.
I thought it couldn’t be much longer, but was mistaken. It
would be another year before we would actually take that
step of faith to believe God for the finances to adopt a
baby from China. November of 2004 we sent in our first
adoption payment, and are now waiting to go to China to
actually pick up Hannah.
The only thing I can say when people ask me, "Why China",
is "Why not". God puts in each of us a passion for
something. Jeremiah 1 talks about how God knows us before
we are even born. I never fully understood that scripture
until now. Until Hannah. God knew her way back in 1999,
when he first put her in my heart. He knew it would take 6
years for it come pass. He knew all along, she would be
our baby. He loves us so much. He cares for us so much. He
knows what we need before we do. How could I say No to
God. This is as much God’s desire, as my own.
In addition, China has a "one child" law in effect. If
your baby is not a girl, the family really needs to try
for a boy. Because boys take care of the elderly parents,
and a daughter marries into the husbands family. It
becomes crucial to the family to have a son. This leaves
many of the baby girls in China orphaned. The Chinese
Government is trying to change this ancient 400 year
custom. Things are improving, but it will take time to
change a 400 year custom.
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