All the time- God is good! I have to begin with a huge thank you to Jacob and Susan Allee. I received a message on facebook from Jacob Tuesday evening stating that he had won two tickets to the Summit for Orphan Care here in Louisville Thursday and Friday. He and Susan have just brought home two precious jewels from Ethiopia and couldn't attend, did we want them?! This was so awesome because we had wanted to go, but at this point we are pinching every penny and the tickets were rather pricey. So, I got two personal days and Matt took a couple of vacation days, and off to learn more about how our family is about to change we went.
To say it has been awesome is an understatement. Day #1 we enjoyed wonderful testimony from an adoptive mom with 14 kids, two with HIV and one with Down Syndrome. Amazing family! Then we attended a wonderful session on how to keep our marriage strong throughout this process...invaluable info (who's volunteering to keep the kids for our monthly date night? ) We have learned about attachment and trauma and how to help our bio and adoptive children cope. We have learned how to help our family become multiracial and the impact this will have on our children.
We have decided that this will NOT be our only adoption, but the FIRST...where to next???
After all of this info....we got to meet with some of the wonderful staff from our agency and several other adoptive families for dinner tonight. Then it was off to a concert by Sarah Groves...AMAZING! During the concert she and her husband shared their testimony and that they are currently paper-chasing to adopt from Rwanda when they re-open! How cool is that! To top it all off we got to meet her in person and I got to hug this fellow Rwanda Mama-to-be :)
It has been an amazing couple of days and I am so very thankful for all of the opportunities God has provided for us. I am re-energized for the remainder of our wait and have gained a renewed excitement to see what the Lord has in store for our family, both in the near and far-off future.
God is good-All the time!
Sounds like you had a great time. Wish I had been there with you.
ReplyDeleteWe also know that this is just our "first" adoption. Gonna start the whole thing over just as soon as we can. :)