Leap of Faith

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine according to His power at work within us, to Him be the glory. - Ephesians 3:20

This bible verse became our family verse in September 2011. A month earlier the Lord put into our hearts the desire to adopt a sibling group of five children from the Ukraine. Since then our lives and our faith have never been the same.

For months I have been urged by friends to start a blog about our journey through infertility to this amazing journey we call adoption. So here I am on the coldest day of 2012, snuggled on the sofa, trying to figure out how all this blog stuff works. Not sure how far I should go back, but I think picking up in August of 2011 would be a good start.

My husband Brian and I had concentrated our efforts into having a child through embryo adoption. We were on our final days of completing our domestic home study and an email came through on my smart phone that would change EVERYTHING!

About a year earlier we had turned down the option of international adoption. We felt as though we didn't have enough money, or enough time to travel, and we were possibly too old to pursue an adoption from a foreign country. Despite our efforts to write our own story, God had different plans for us.

We continued to receive emails from Christian adoption agencies telling us about children waiting for their forever families in other countries. Never did we think, "oh this might be the child for us," because we had already said no to international adoption. We would just receive the emails so we could pray for the children. In August we received such an email that explained that this sibling group of five were praying for a family to adopt them all so they could be together again.

We couldn't get the five of them off our minds. They were deeply embedded into our hearts and we felt as if these were our children. Taking a massive leap of faith, we pursued an adoption for them and prayed that God's will be done. Having no idea what it would take, we had complete peace that if this is God's will He will open doors or close doors as He sees fit. For the next several months the doors have been open, wide open.

We continue to pray that God will work in a mighty way to bring our children home.