So I thought I'd share some quotes that have been standing out to me from around the Internet.
"God opened doors before we even got to them."
-LeSuer family, during their adoption (from YouTube video)
Side note: My husband just accepted a full-time position with benefits at Charles Schwab! He's been working his way up the corporate ladder and I'm very proud of him. This also means that he'll have some vacation days now and the cost of him not working while we're in-country will no longer be an additional expense!
"On Sunday I told him, 'I have reasons to not move forward, but not one of them can be supported with scripture and they all have to do with me.'
"He said, 'Same here. We move forward.'"
-current family adopting special needs child
"It just didn't feel right until we opened ourselves up to consider the possibility."
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"That small voice, the 'what if,' the tug in your heart, is worth listening to, no matter how scary or unsparkly it might seem."
-Mohr family, on planning to adopt a girl and adopting 3 boys (from RainbowKids article)
"We started talking about the possibility of adding to our family. It kind of made us squirm a little bit. After all, we've got a good thing going here. The girls have settled in enough that life has started to feel halfway normal again. Comfortable. But maybe we aren't supposed to be comfortable. Maybe we're supposed to stretch... to serve... to sacrifice our preconceived notions of what our family should look like."
-from the blog: The Great Adventure
"As I was talking with a friend of mine about this, I thought again just what families do for these kids. It's not just a nice idea to adopt a child from an orphanage. It's not just a way to grow a family. Because really, this isn't about the family we used to be. It's not about us doing something nice for a child. It's not about us. It's about him. Adoption is about Seth. It's about rescuing one boy from a life I cannot even wrap my mind around. The loneliness. The neglect. The boredom. The aching for love. The missed life experiences. Adoption is fixing that for a child. For them, it's huge. It's monumental. It's life changing and life saving.
"Can you even imagine what his life was? What any orphan's life is? Would you ever want your own children to live that way? Of course not. But he IS ours. And we're in the business now of raising a child who's come from that background, and so I need to stop being surprised that he is still absolutely terrified that at some point in time, he will be 'transferred' again, out of our care and into his next facility. I need to quit being surprised that he's afraid this will one day end. I need to expect that he will worry when faced with new experiences, because who would want to give up a family, to go back there? Who would want to lose a family it took 6 1/2 years to find, only to be abandoned again? Who can blame him for being anxious about that? And you know what all this really means? You know what the beauty of this is? He loves us. He really, really loves us. He's attached. He's found a place where he fits in, and he knows it and he's clinging to it. If he's scared to lose it, it's only because he knows what it's like to not have it, and he never, ever wants that again. He wants us. And he's trying desperately to trust that we want him too. And so every experience like this proves to him again that he is ours. And we are his. Forever."
-from the blog: The Little Boy Who Could
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