3 Amazing years ago, we found ourselves on the same page as we had so many times before, with our dearest friends the Massey's. This time it was finding our families on the starting line in a race (more like a Marathon) called Adoption. We did not intentionally begin this journey of life together. Kip and I had been praying for a while and Greg and Ally had just received a word from the Lord earlier in the month.Throughout our friendship, though, our lives intertwined in some pretty amazing ways. Ways that only the Author could have wrote out. And as we started this journey together, it was comforting and exciting to have them by our sides. We walked our adoption agreement in to our adoption agency on a bright and sunny Thursday afternoon. And what filled our time from that first day until we boarded the plane were dreams shared, clothes bought, prayers continually were lifted to One who hears, dinner party's, baby showers, and hours of phone calls. The joyful expectation over our girls growing up together flowed through every other plan we had. Our other children are great friends. we have stair-step ages and it works out fantasticly. So, adding a girl from each family just fit perfectly into our family dynamics.
Our journey to China was amazing. And hard. So sweet, too. It seemes almost like a dream now thinking back. So much of life has happened since then and yet sometimes it feels just like yesterday. We had not been home for three months when Myer got sick. Her illness caught us all off guard. We were just getting back into a schedule and figuring out life when this tragedy struck. (you can check out the whole story at http://www.journeytome.com/ *adoption stories *Journey to Tatumn Hope--or at http://www.carepages.com/ Myer)
But God has promised that He would bring beauty from the ashes. And He has. It hasn't always looked like the pictures we had in our minds, because it far sweeter than we ever thought it would be. There were some very dark days that we did not think we would get to see the girls playing like this. Hanging out at the kitchen making soup. Pouring tea(sweet, of coarse) for each other at a tea party. Fussing over dishes. Watching them put a cup behind their back so the other friend cannot get it. And Myer giving Tatumn a ride as she crawled across our kitchen floor had to be one of the funniest!
I have learned not to take things for granted. To savor today. And play days with Myer, Tatumn's Very Best Friend, are one of God's Greatest.
Our journey to China was amazing. And hard. So sweet, too. It seemes almost like a dream now thinking back. So much of life has happened since then and yet sometimes it feels just like yesterday. We had not been home for three months when Myer got sick. Her illness caught us all off guard. We were just getting back into a schedule and figuring out life when this tragedy struck. (you can check out the whole story at http://www.journeytome.com/ *adoption stories *Journey to Tatumn Hope--or at http://www.carepages.com/ Myer)
But God has promised that He would bring beauty from the ashes. And He has. It hasn't always looked like the pictures we had in our minds, because it far sweeter than we ever thought it would be. There were some very dark days that we did not think we would get to see the girls playing like this. Hanging out at the kitchen making soup. Pouring tea(sweet, of coarse) for each other at a tea party. Fussing over dishes. Watching them put a cup behind their back so the other friend cannot get it. And Myer giving Tatumn a ride as she crawled across our kitchen floor had to be one of the funniest!
I have learned not to take things for granted. To savor today. And play days with Myer, Tatumn's Very Best Friend, are one of God's Greatest.
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