Amory and I spent the last year and a half trying to conceive a child. Over a year of that time was spent with an infertility specialist. Amory has always had a big heart for adoption while I was not so excited about the idea at first. As time went by over the last year my heart has completely changed. We believe that God has laid down a path for us that we want to follow. I can honestly say that I am quite possibly more excited about adoption than I was about having a biological child. We just know that God has a child for us to love and raise up in a Christian home, and we are truly excited about the possibilities for the future.
I guess this is as good a time as any to explain our desire to adopt from Ethiopia. It all started with our wonderful cousin Sara, who is absolutely the sweetest person you could ever meet. Sara, who is a registered nurse, felt led to go into missions a few years back. She ended up doing just that when she accepted an offer to work in Addis Ababa with patients dealing with HIV. We customarily got updates on how she was doing. Throughout this time our hearts grew for the children of Ethiopia. Interestingly, Sara was staying with a lady who headed up the care center for an adoption agency in the country. Over this past year, we have started frequently visiting the agency's web site and looking at blogs of families who are going through the process. We decided that certain doors were being closed, but with that new possibilies were opening up to us as well. With that we began the adoption process by filling out the pre-application for adoption last week. We decided that we wanted to create a blog for our family and friends, as well as ourselves. I hope that this blog can be a source of hope, a witness to the glory of God, and a working journal of the memories we are creating as we follow the road to Ethiopian Adoption that God has laid down before us.
Bryan
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