When your heart is called to adopt there is a fire that burns inside. For us, our fire started out as a pilot light and turned into a raging wild fire. We want to help children everywhere in. so. many. ways. Then struck with the reality of how much adoption costs, we wonder HOW? How can we do this? God is great BUT...???
In our latest adventure we have given God the "but" and put our faith exclusively in Him. We were recently presented with two situations both costing $10,000 more then we have budgeted for. You read that right...3 zeros.
In the first months of adoption we wouldn't have even considered these situations, our faith wasn't as strong. We don't have that much money, nor could we get a loan for that much, BUT today we offer our profiles knowing that if either of these children are the children meant for us that there is no stopping us. God will provide as he ALWAYS has. And we will go wherever our child is.
I could go into a long rant about the unnecessary spike in adoption costs, or how unsettling it is to put a price tag on a child's chance at life....that's not my fight. My fight is to be a mommy to another child who God so graciously puts into our family. My fight is against the world so that this child sees the Love of Jesus and knows His peace...that's my fight....money or no money!
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