We have BIG news! Conrad is going to be a big brother, because we're ADOPTING! Our hearts are overflowing with abundant joy and excitement, as we see how beautifully the Lord is writing the story of our family. Adoption as His son and daughter. Adoption of our son. And now adoption, again, to expand our family!
For those of you who don't know much about us, in the fall of 2016, God began unmistakably stirring within us the call to adoption. At the time, we had been praying and asking God to make us parents, for almost 4 years. We had struggled through what the doctors called "unknown" infertility, trying to get pregnant, yet to us, the longer the wait grew, the more clear and known what that withholding was pushing and drawing us to. Adoption. The unspeakable joy of becoming parents arrived on February 26th, 2020, with the birth of our son, Conrad. We brought him home 6 days later on March 4th, and we have found there hasn't been a day, there hasn't been a moment (even the really really hard ones), that our hearts have not been filled with the utmost gratitude, that our Heavenly Father wanted something different for our family. He wanted something that, to this day, feels so holy and precious, something so specifically ours, in giving us Conrad.
Today, as we begin our adoption journey again, we are so expectant. Expectant of how the Lord is going to move in us and through us. Expectant of how the Lord is going to use this adoption process to further root and deepen the foundation of our family. Expectant of who the Lord is knitting together, protecting, and preparing to be a part of our family forever. Adoption is at the very core of who our God is, and adoption is at the very core of who we are!
Please join us in praying for these things, as we begin our adoption process:
-Pray for Conrad, as this will be something new for him. Pray that the adoption of his baby brother (his request 😂) or baby sister, would allow his little heart to be at peace with his own adoption story, but also excited about his adoption story! That he was created and preserved and protected and so cherished by the God who created the universe, that he was chosen to be our son and part of our family!
-Pray for the Birthmother as she is walking through the most difficult days. Pray her heart would be free of fear. Pray she would protect the baby growing in her womb, in everything that she does. Pray she would feel a supernatural peace as she begins making her adoption plan. Pray she would feel seen and deeply loved by God, throughout every detail of the process.
-Pray for John & I. Pray we would have wisdom and discernment on how to walk through this process, with Conrad (as I've shared with some, it's one thing for John and I to walk through this process, it's entirely different as we are shepherding and protecting the heart of our son through this process). Pray we would stay rooted, putting our trust and hope in the Lord alone. Pray we would have discernment on how to protect our hearts. Pray for peace, which surpasses all understanding, to cover us throughout the entire process.
-Pray all the funding we need would come in swiftly! Let it be a beacon of the Lord's glory and provision!
