A Dad’s Perspective
So here we go again jumping on the adoption merry-go-round.
Life over the past four years has been quite the journey unto itself. In
February 2012, we had six biological children. Our home was filling up. We had
to figure out transportation, bedrooms, and dining space for everyone. During
that transitional time God was prompting us to adopt. He place two specific
young ladies into our hearts. So we proceeded down that journey late in 2012,
with much trepidation in my heart as to how all the costs and other logistics
would be resolved. And I honestly had not real idea for what we would be in for;
bringing two children into our home that had been all but thrown away by a
society half way around the world.
Well God took care of the details, as is the case when you
step out in faith. And for good measure, He threw in a pregnancy right in the
middle of everything. Yes life never ceases to be interesting. So Penny and
Fanny arrived in our home February 2014, and our youngest, Julia, was born a month later- increasing our family size by a full
third in one fell swoop. Transportation, bedrooms, and dining space: revisited
(again.)
You can read about many of the life adjustments we have gone
through with Penny and Fanny trying to work through unravelling the results of
many years of their difficult life circumstances preceding their adoption in
previous blogs. Adoption has not scared us off; it has made us strong through many, many frustrations, fearful moments,
and much head scratching to find ways to enter their worlds.
As previously stated, God has prompted us again. It has come
about a little differently this time. The first go around, we were diligently
trying to pray children into their forever homes. Although we continue pray
children into their forever homes, over the past year we have also had the
opportunity to become involved in new ways with the orphanage system in the
girls’ home country. Through this God placed His plan for us to adopt into our
hearts. Maureen would say desire to adopt, I would say obedience to adopt. It
all comes down to the same though if it is God’s plan.
And if you ever wondered if God has a sense of humor…..we
are expecting again too. J
So in the coming months we will again
have added three more children to our family, totaling 12 if you had lost
count. Guess what…. transportation, bedrooms, and dining space will have to be
revisited (again^2).
Please join in the exciting journey ahead by checking in to
this blog once in a while and by visiting Reece’s Rainbow to see “Saleena” and
“Polly” the two little ones God has directed us to at http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=huizinga
. Find a couple of little ones to pray into their forever homes while you are
there. That is how we got started.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:1(KJV)
~Paul
