God's Handiwork

I know that I say this a lot, but I'm amazed every single day at God's handiwork and how He weaves everything together.  It's utterly mind-blowing to me how God works.  Three years I thought my life was over, that I'd never be a mother, that I'd failed at one of the most basic things that women were created to do and that I'd failed as a wife.  Everyone (or so it seemed to me) was getting pregnant, even women I didn't know.  They'd say the word and BAM they were pregnant....it was very frustrating! 

But, (oh - how I love this word) in ways that only God can work, He kept slamming doors shut in order to THROW THE WINDOWS WIDE OPEN for adoption.  Today, I know without a shadow of a doubt that this is the way that God planned on us to become parents.  We are both so excited that we can barley contain ourselves.  We love our birthmom  and our baby and we don't even know them yet!  We're surrounded not only with support and love, but Christian support and love.  And there is a difference.

Somehow, I strike up conversation with strangers and a lot of the time the adoption comes up and that we are "waiting" on a birthmom.  And the responses are ALWAYS positive; sometimes they ask questions about adoption itself (teaching moment!!!), the birthmom or baby, or about their personal experience.  The last happens more often then you'd think.  For me this happens usually once to twice a week.  I know it's awesome, right!

Just today, I was at the Container Store, buying storage bins for the nursery when this Asian man working there asked if he could help me and why I was looking for storage bins.  So, I told him about the adoption.  Long story short.  He is a Christian (awesome) and they had adopted internationally.  We got to talking about the differences in international vs domestic adoption and peoples responses overall to adoption.  He wished us well and told me that he and his wife would be praying for us.  Really, how totally awesome is that.

Adoption for us (so far) has been such a blessing because God has revealed many things to us regarding His love, the compassion of strangers and how truly blessed we are with our family and friends.  I love that I can use something as beautiful as adoption to education others and to ultimately praise God. 

Christ love and handiwork are so woven through this whole process.  I'm really looking forward to seeing where we are in a year from now.