It’s so hard to wait. Summer seems to be filled with  a million happy families everywhere you turn taking their kids for bike rides, ice cream, posting updates on Facebook about Disneyland vacations and going to visit grandma and grandpa. It’s so hard not to get jealous, isn’t it?

I remember those days well. I tried so, so hard not to be bitter, but to celebrate adoptions or births, but it hurt. One year, in January (right after emotional holidays) the local news announced that a celebrity (from Los Angeles) had adopted a baby boy from San Diego (where I live.) Well! I felt like that could hav been my baby! As a celebrity she could have abdopted anywhere, any time.. why in my town?

When I read the blog Grace in My Heart I was inspired by her attitude. Then I read more of her blog about the experience of parenting she and her husband had. They adopted a newborn baby boy for four months, only to have the birthfather contest (and win) the adoption. My heart just went out to her. I know she will inspire you too!

She shares…

…an old friend of mine had the following quote as her [Facebook] status update:

“Love is the uniting of our will to the will of God. It is abandoning ourselves totally into His hands, as a habitual disposition, even if we feel nothing.”

After I read this, I had a profound realization. As hard as it is, and for whatever reason, it is just not our turn to adopt yet. This quote was telling me that true love is completely abandoning all of my wants, needs, and desires to follow Christ’s will- even if I get nothing in return and feel nothing in return.

I could sit and feel sorry for myself, contemplate what else we could have said in our birthmother letter, and figure out what else I could do to make our picture look better or… I could accept God’s will, be happy for this couple and their new adopted baby, and be grateful that an adoption is taking place this month.

We Never Gave Up Hope - Adoption Transparency

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