Who do we love?

"God's love is perfect love. It drives out fear, it doesn't expect anything in return..." It's so easy to worry more about protecting ourselves and our families from grief than the fact that a child may die without ever having been loved, and belonged to a family, or heard the gospel from the lips of loving parents who care about his never-dying soul. My heart is shattered daily, I tell you. :(

"Cautious Love"



Can we love the broken, dying, rebellious, forgotten? Who will we allow ourselves to love?

Updating the Timeline

Fost-Adopt can be a short process. Unless you are a procrastinator like me.

Since adoption is something that I have wanted SO badly for so many years, you would think I would be whipping out paperwork and checking off boxes like a Type A Superstar.  Seriously, what is my problem?!

I could blame the 'system' for taking so long between steps. I could even leave it as chronic procrastination, but I know it's more than that. It's fear.  I'm terrified about a whole laundry list of what-if's. I know so much about adoption and the good, bad, and the ugly, and I'm terrified that we will only experience the bad and the ugly and none of the good.

It gets harder and harder to hold on to our resolve to 'get our hands dirty' when you start to see the mud puddles. Intellectually, I believe that we are not in this world to have everything easy and that eternity will be worth any pain, suffering, rejection, and grief that we experience in this life.  But signing up for all that FOR REAL is just plain scary.

But,

" For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline."
 2 Timothy 1:7
New American Standard Bible (NASB)

So today, I am going to look to Him for the power, love, and discipline for each new task on the adoption process timeline and pray for the wisdom to do the same each day for all my days. To God alone be the Glory.

(Be sure to check for updates to our timeline HERE)

Mere Days to Find a Family!

Hello again!  I know; it's been far too long since I've posted anything in here, but before I get back to updating the blog, there is something far more pressing I need to share with you.  There is a young man who MUST find a family to commit to adopting him by next week or he will be forced to leave the orphanage and survive on his own at the tender age of 16!  This is unacceptable! We need to find him a family!

Please read the post below and share it in every way you can until his family is found!


No Greater Joy Mom: URGENT***URGENT***URGENT!!!

Interview from Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit VII with Carolyn Twietmeyer broadcast today

This was an awesome, awesome interview about Adoption and the power of our Mighty God!  Don't miss it!


Welcome Home!

Are you attending? Together for Adoption Conference 2011 in Phoenix, AZ

Only a little over a month from now, people from all over the country with a heart for orphan care and adoption will be gathering for the Together for Adoption Conference.  There will be some wonderful speakers and amazing breakout sessions, and all my Project HOPEFUL peeps will be there, too! I don't know that I'll be able to go, so I may have to live vicariously through those of you who do <grin> .  Don't let me down; I want pictures, video, tweets and FB updates all weekend long, people! Lots. Of. Updates. 

So who's going?

Fundraiser: Infant with Down Syndrome needs a family to adopt him. Let's take the financial hurdle out of the decision process!

A family is urgently needed for a bi-racial little boy who was born last week.  He was released from the hospital 48 hours after his birth and showed no other symptoms of syndrome. His heart was also fine at this time and now he desperately needs a family!  I want to make sure that his future family doesn't have to take the adoption fees into consideration when deciding whether or not to bless their home with him!  Please spread the word and use the Chip-In Widget to donate to this cause! ((took the chip-in down temporarily while I wait for confirmed permission to accept them - will update asap!!))



If you would like more information on adopting him, please contact me! 

Here is a video to help you pray for him:  

The Farmer's Wife Tells All Blog "Girls Only" Project

Do you remember how awkward the early years of womanhood are? I know they're burned into my own memory and I can't imagine having to go through that as an orphan, can you?!  Here is a fabulous project for us all to find a way to help with:

http://www.thefarmerswifetellsall.com/2011/07/girls-only-project.html


Please consider taking part!

~Jennifer