BEEEEEP THIS IS A TEST...

Yes this journey of adoption is a test...it is a test of our faith in god. i do believe this! Once a month we get together with our lifelinks bible study group. Every month there is something that slaps me up side the head...this is what it was this month! " IF YOUR FAITH CAN NOT BE TESTED IT CAN NOT BE TRUSTED!" WOW is that profound to me. Yes I will admit that there are times where I can't understand why WE have been waiting for as long as we have. Maybe you think that 6 months isn't that long but if you look at my past blogs of what we have been thru you will understand that it has been almost 6 years of waiting to be a mommy and a daddy! The Book of James is really about Faith.

James 1:2-4 says

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

He talks about "whenever" trials come your way not "if" trials come your way. I know that becoming a parent and HOW we will become parents is one of the trials we will face together in this wonderful journey of adoption.

Adoption has always been a part of the human experience. There can be no doubt of this, because the Bible uses the word to explain how by becoming a Christian, we become, by adoption, children of God. Mordecai adopted an orphan he named Esther, as his own child. He loved her, raised her carefully, and she was a good and obedient daughter even into adulthood. (Esther 2:7 on)

Samuel was born to a mother who had prayed in anguish for a very long time, for a baby. At last she promised God that if He gave her a baby, she would bring the baby to the temple, and give it back to God. She kept her promise, and brought little Samuel to the priest Eli, in deep gratitude for the privilege of having become a mother; for having at last, the desire of her heart.

God has had some intricate plans in the lives of some of my children as well. I am absolutely certain, that at their conception, they were meant to become our own children. But in God's plan, they had other lives to go through first.

I hope I have helped anyone out there who might be losing faith that motherhood may not be in the "cards for them" but it is...I truly have faith that He will bring us our baby when He this we are ready...it may not fit our timetable the way we want it to...but in His time table.

Hugs and Blessings