Wow! Grace, Faith and now our sweet Hope!
Honestly, during this past year we were afraid to say "yes" to the sweet but gentle voice of Jesus as He tried to nudge us forward and begin this amazing adoption journey. We could think of so many reasons why this was not going to work in our plan, who would sleep where? could we send three kids to a private school? would three kids simply be overwhelming with everything we have going on??? The answers were confusing, nothing seemed clear and we couldn't define or justify why we would do this again....but we continued to pray for answers and some amazing truths began to be revealed.
The most revealing truth was the phrase "God's Perfect Plan"! These words just kept coming into my head and I kept thinking how or why would we change, add-to, or take away anything from these three words! The things we had on our radar were so insignificant. It's not our plan to begin with! The reality became more clear to us that our daughter Hope would be waiting in China for us as we struggled to design our own plan and would simply miss her as she would pay the price for our lack of faith. Big reality check!!
The thoughts then simply became why wouldn't we do this and we both received a tremendous peace about the whole thing and of course we said "yes". We are so excited to experience this journey with our friends and family and can't wait to watch "the plan" being revealed.
Our paperwork is well underway and we continue to get closer to our Log-In-Date, which by the way needs to be before September 7th when Dan turns 50. We hope everything will go smoothly, much easier the second time, but you never know with adoption!
Our girls are thrilled with the thought of having another sister and MiMi is especially jazzed because she will become a big sister! (or in her case the little big sister)
I am excited about starting this blog and thank you Angela D. for setting this up for me. She will eventually let me work up to the slideshow feature, but I must prove I'm capable at this level first! HaHa
2 comments:
We are praying for Hope and can't wait to see the newest Chapman come home!!!
So happy that you are blogging. Thanks for including our blog on your list. I'll add yours now if that is OK.
We are thrilled that you have chosen to adopt again. Your paperchase will continue to be in our prayers.
We can't wait to see Grace and MiMi be big sister and little big sister!
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