Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Children Are The Greatest Gifts God Has Given Us

Our Heavenly Father gave Steve and I nine wonderful gifts, but the party wasn't over yet.  He had one more gift He was saving till just the right time.  When He knew we were ready to receive this precious gift, He led us to the place He was saving him.  God is leading us to Africa to receive gift #10!

We couldn't be more excited to add one more of God's precious children to our family.  As soon as we saw our precious boy from Africa, we KNEW he was ours.   This is his bio on the Reece's Rainbow website:


Washington is 11 years old.  He is deaf and has had limited schooling in his home country.  This is the description from a family that recently spent time with him:

Washington’s personality is very sweet and thoughtful. He is wonderful with younger children and always offering to help without being asked to. He also really wants a family. He carries in his pocket a newspaper picture of a random family that he showed us. Broke my heart not to be able to take him home with us right then. He can write his letters and can show you the sign language for each one, so despite a limited education he seems like a really bright child.

Can you see how him wanting a family so bad that he was carrying a random newspaper picture of a family touched my heart?  How I longed to be that family!  I took it to the rest of the family and we all agreed and knew it was right.  (There was much prayer and fasting involved in this decision after we talked about it as a family.  We didn't take it lightly.)  Although we knew adoption wouldn't be easy, we knew with Heaven's help we could and would get through it.  We have already seen so many miracles performed in our behalf, each one confirming our decision to make "Washington" a part of our family.  

I wish I could show you his picture on this blog, but because of restrictions from his country, I will refrain until we are home and safe to share.  Believe me, he is a handsome young man and he will be loved beyond anything he could possibly imagine!  As this adoption has progressed, I have often stood back in amazement at the love you can have for a child you've never met.  We love him SO much!  We worry about him and pray for him constantly.  We can't wait for the day when we can hold him and tell him he is loved and wanted and that he will have a forever family!

I will explain more and share some of the miracles in future posts.  I just wanted to share how excited we are to become the parents of yet another one of Heavenly Father's precious children.  We are so blessed!  :)

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