Baby Steps

It just dawned on me that the title has a double meaning. I meant to convey that we are taking small steps on adoption...also taking steps toward a child!

Our hearts and our goals have been changing with all we have been through for the last year or so. We had considered domestic infant adoption for awhile, but we seem to have lost interest in being one couple out of 100s that a potential birth Mom selects out of profiles and photos. There seem to be more than enough families for children in that situation. But what about the children around us who don't have a stable loving home, and who think no one wants them?

So, we are now investigating what it takes to adopt domestically a child who is harder to place. From the beginning, we have said that we are more motivated by what we can offer a child than what a child would do for us. We liked the philosophy of an agency we encountered who said "we are not in the business of finding children for couples, we are finding families for our children!".

So, please pray for us to move forward with discernment and with obedient hearts!

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps". Proverbs 16:9