WE HAVE AN ADOPTION DATE!!!

We are unspeakably grateful that we never have to say goodbye. In a few weeks our Precious Little Z will officially be ours. The wait is over. He will have his forever family.

The journey was as advertised. While there are still fears of the future and a new journey ahead, the time of uncertainty will soon be over and permanency will begin.

Wow….Emotion after emotion! We have an adoption date for our precious Little Z. It’s been just over two years since God placed this jubilantly joyful, energetically ecstatic, snuggling sweetheart into our arms.

It started as an act of obedience to step out on to the waters of foster care, not knowing if we’d ever adopt. Not knowing if we’d get to keep him. A daily surrender to God’s plan for him and his biological family. Reminders of Abraham with Isaac, Hannah with Samuel, and friends with their foster children who returned home, enabled us to place his life and story into the Father’s hands. Yet after each ear to ear grin, tender snuggle, tickle chase, or “firsts” we fought that surrender, longing to keep him whatever the cost. But the words “All to Jesus I surrender. All to Him I freely give. I will ever love and trust Him. In His presence I will live.” won out, and we were graced with a deeper intimacy with Christ than we ever could have fathomed. Now we receive the gift of adoption. He will stay. How can it be? The world of foster care so rarely ends in adoption and there were so many heart-stopping, world crashing worries. Yet, we were given the gift of our son. Our son… A gift unearned and undeserved. Feels an awful lot like God’s grace. What a palpable visual and experience of the Father’s love and we will never take it for granted.

The emotions are many. Even in the midst of such ecstasy there is still grief. We rejoice, yet grieve for his biological family. This child means the world to us, yet they will never get to know this familial intimacy. We pray for them and the impact on his future. We pray for grace, transformation, and healing.

But today and the coming weeks we CELEBRATE! A new last name. A new birth certificate. An adoption.

“But these things I plan won’t happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.” Habakkuk 2:3