One day, one phone call, can change everything...
Jeremy and Katie got a call on a chilly day last November and their world stopped. And then, unexpectedly, God showed up and changed EVERYTHING with another call...
For Jeremy and Katie, that second call happened just seven months later. Read the crazy and beautiful ways God turned their darkest nights into dancing as Katie shares their adoption story...
Our adoption story. It feels so surreal to say those words.
When we got married, we lived in this fairy tale, blissful, naive bubble where we believed we were actually in control. In control of our own lives, and especially in control of when/how/where we would have children. We even planned out that we would have a couple biologically and then go on adopt. And that's how it would happen - because we had planned it that way.
One November day, after a year of trying to conceive, our fairy tale bubble was burst. One phone call from the doctor assured us that our plans were not going to happen. We sank into a darkness and sadness that we didn't even know existed.
Why us?
What had we done wrong?
How can our hearts be hurting this deep?
But in that darkness we heard the Lord's beautiful whisper "now it's time for MY plan."
In one fell swoop our God took back everything the enemy had taken from us. Our hope. Our joy. Our future.
Little did we know that walking alongside friends who had adopted through Christian Adoption Consultants year prior would be preparing us for our own adoption journey. We were immediately in contact with Susan and were soon running full speed ahead.
Throughout the entire adoption process we had to make the conscious decision to trust in the Lord and speak out against the darkness and it's lies.
You'll never get matched.
You'll never be able to afford this.
You aren't good enough to be parents.
June 22. We will never forget this day as long as we live.
"Birth mother says you are PERFECT."
And with those six words, our lives were forever changed.
Our son, Jackson, was born four weeks later. He arrived seven weeks early and we spent the next 29 days in the NICU out of state.
Once again, our plans were thrown to the side to allow the Lord's story to unfold. You see, adoption isn't just about waiting parents getting a child. It is a physical representation of the Gospel that changes the course of all future generations.
We are still processing every detail of Jackson coming into our lives and I'm sure we will for years to come. But we know this for sure: even in our darkest moments the Lord is making beauty from ashes. And His plans will always exceed anything we could ever possibly imagine.
"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think." - Ephesians 3:20
Because the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy our hope and joy; but our God comes, not just to give life, but give it to the full.
Jackson is the full we didn't even imagine to pray for.
And for that, we are thankful the Lord doesn't follow our plans.
No comments:
Post a Comment