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Why China?
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Because
that’s where our daughter is…
Many years ago (before marriage and children) I read an
article about the girls who were abandoned in China. I
believe since that day adoption from China has had a place
in my heart. After John and I got married, we had two
children. Then the subject of adoption came up when we
discussed adding to our family again. I attended a seminar
at a local adoption agency and was ready to get started
but John’s heart wasn’t ready. I pushed the idea of
adopting out of the forefront of my mind and we had
another biological child. Not long after that I started
thinking about adopting a lot. In the meantime God had
starting to prepare John, he received several “signs” and
shared with me that he was ready. Then we got a received a
little miracle and along came child number four. I
honestly thought John would abandon the adoption idea
because 4 kids is a lot. But five??? After number four was
born and about 9 months old we talked and were both still
willing to pursue the adoption of a child, we strongly
felt this was something God had led us to. It just felt
right. We began the process in August of 2007 to adopt
from China, the country imprinted in my mind so long ago.
We logged in to China on 12-17-07. We quickly discovered
the wait was long. Too long. This past fall we decided to
check the special needs lists when they came out every
month. For several months we checked the list but did not
find our daughter. Then in October, there was a little
girl on the list, she was older than we originally
requested but something in me compelled me to ask for her
file. When we opened the file we knew she was meant to be
ours. We contacted our agency and requested to lock her in
for 48 hours. I felt strongly this was our daughter but we
wanted to know exactly what issues we were facing. After
speaking with several medical professionals we knew this
was a very minor issue and we could handle it. We sent in
our Letter of Intent on October 31, 2008. We believe that
God used our desire for a daughter and the long wait to
lead us right to Bi Hong. We feel so fortunate that he
picked us to be her family and cannot wait to bring her
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