Obedience

Obedience sometimes has some negative connotations to it, usually because it can be hard to do. But when we do, so many amazingly beautiful things can happen. 11 year ago today our precious Pierson was born. There are many bittersweet feeling of the thought of his birth. I am so thankful his birth mother choose life and I am so thankful we listened and obeyed the call to become his parents. What an amazing gift we have been given. 

God then called us again to go and get Cargan. A child who had never been hugged in 6 years of his life. Oh, thank you Lord for calling us to be obedient to your plan for our family. What an incredible journey to watch a life transform before your eyes and receive the sweetest hugs imaginable. 

Then there is my sweet Sarah who's heart is always seeking the Lord and encouraging us to be obedient to what the Lord has called us to do. There has been a lot of heartache over the past two years thinking God was putting the pieces together to adopt to then have them fall apart in a split second. But she kept the faith and believed in God's perfect plan. 

  Honestly this road of obedience has not been easy. I have been stretched beyond measure. It has been a difficult journey and each time we walk the adoption road again it gets harder knowing how hard it was before. It has not been a step of faith this time but a huge leap. God is so faithful. 

We can't post her picture on social media but email me if you would like to see her. :)

So we are excited to again be called to adopt. This time a tiny little girl who was a preemie like our Sarah. We have named her Moriah and we hope to travel in the summer to get her.  There are many days when the seed of discouragement starts to creep in and I cry out to the Lord in prayer wondering if she will really ever come home. And I have to tell you that God has already done amazing things. 

Our yard sale was one of those huge things. He provided beyond what we could have imagined. But then something happened that was so precious. God prompted specific people who gave from their heart and those gifts came at the exact moment that the Lord knew I needed to here from Him and what was so amazing to me was that these people all said God told us to give, this is from Him and they were obedient. I write through tears because their obedience was such a huge blessing but it also was a clear voice from the Lord saying Daphne "I will being her home!!"