Our Heart's Desire..

Steve and I have always been very open about the struggles we have had in our life together! A few years back I wrote about our attempts to get pregnant and how that had not been successful. God has taught us so much since that time. We are completely different people. We have grown, made mistakes and faced those mistakes head on and we are better for it. Lately, God has really been teaching us that we need to live our life simply and intentionally. We do not want to have things just happen to us but earnestly seek God's will and with unwavering devotion go after what He is leading us to. We also want to live simply for the sake of the kingdom. We do not want a choice we made for something material to mean we cannot affect the kingdom in some way. Steve and I have had the desire to be parents since we were married. In 2 weeks we will have been married 5 years and a part of each others life for more than a decade. We have started to earnestly seek God's will in the area of children and believe he is leading us to adoption. We are so excited about this and are right now simply in the information gathering stage. We are hoping and praying to be able to begin the process in one year and then have our kids home in 2 to 2 1/2 years. Yes I said kids. The other part of it is we are starting to feel the call and direction that we will be adopting a sibling group. We are overwhelmed by the thought of all the details that will go into this let alone the cost but trust and know that God is taking us down this road and he will help us take care of each hurdle as they come. There is a reason I'm writing this though. More and more God has been teaching me about the importance of prayer and how it is more important than any other thing we could do. We need people to be praying with us about this. For our family, for our children... who may already be out there. Please pray that God moves, opens doors, leads and directs and comforts as we prepare to go through this process. We are feeling the pull to international adoption and specifically to a country in Africa. It would be pointless to go into more details than that here since honestly we just don't know. We have an idea of where we're going and what is going to happen but we don't know anything definite at this point. Please pray with us. Please pass this on to people that know us and would also partner with us in prayer this next year as we prepare to begin and then on from there as we go through the process. We will not be able to do this with the complete covering from God. He is our provider and desire. Without him we would be so lost.

Love to all!