I was reading in Matthew this morning and looking at Jesus' genealogy. I was thinking of how our new child will have two families to trace back through (biological and adoptive). Kevin and I will help this child with their history as much as we can, however, we really have the greater goal of sharing with this child their heritage in our Lord. Genesis 1 tells us that we are made in the image of God. He created us perfectly with a plan to live for Him. Psalms tells us He knew us and formed us in our mother's womb. John tells us that God sent Jesus to live a sinless life, die as a sacrifice, to be raised to conquer death for all eternity. All this is because of LOVE. I want this child (and all my children) to know God LOVES them! They were created with a purpose birthed from LOVE.
We all have the opportunity to be adopted, we need to except the invitation into the family. We are cherished and LOVED by the Creator Himself! Incredible. I can't wrap my mind around it. As a family, we are blessed to be able to experience the adoption process in a different way as we adopt from Haiti.
Thank you to all who have been a part of our adoption. Exciting news! Our translator was amazing and she translated all of our documents in a shorter time than she thought. We got them back on Saturday!! Then today all the documents went to the Haitian Consulate in Chicago to get legalized. When we get those back, which should be by end of next week???? then it is off to Haiti!! The next step is to be matched with our child!!
We are having a huge community garage sale May 19th, so if you still would like to clean out and donate to us, we are appreciative of any donations. We are so blessed by all who have donated to us and bought from us.
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