In reflecting on where we are at with our current adoption, we began to wonder if we were putting "God in a box" by seeking to adopt a specific gender. We don't want to be caught in the attitude of saying we will adopt, but only if it is a boy. Therefore, today we contacted our social worker and said we would be open to any gender - - all we really want is a healthy child to love and treasure! Why not let God decide what is best for our family?!? After all, if we were to get pregnant, we couldn't care less what gender of the baby, we would just be elated, knowing that we were having a baby, and know that God knows what is best for us!! Why not do the same with adoption?!?!
After I got off the phone, I changed our status as to what we are seeking on our site through Adoption-Share. I then posted our status, much like how you'd change your facebook status, so that others could openly see that we had changed that status as well. Adoption centers, crisis pregnancy care centers, birth mothers, etc, all have access to our profile there on that site. Anyway---I was excited to see when I checked email that an agency had emailed us asking if we'd like more info about them and a birth mother they are working with!!!! Of course, I quickly responded, saying yes!! This baby would be due the first part of October and the gender is unknown, at least at this point. It is incredibly difficult to not get excited, knowing that this one may not work out either. But I look forward to getting some more information and seeing how God leads. Thanks for praying and going with us on this seemingly quite bumpy emotional roller coaster of our 'paper pregnancy'.
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