Walking Out Faith

Bible Study Fellowship is like drinking in God's word from a fire hose. Seriously. Sometimes I don't realize the weightiness of what I've heard until, in this case, years later. Yesterday I started reviewing my notes from when I attended BSF back in 2014! Man, what a wealth of godly knowledge. I'm so thankful I took notes! And it's funny how the God of the universe can know me so intimately. He knew what my heart needed today back in 2014. This adoption process can be summed up in one word: Obedience. Now, please don't misunderstand me. This is not to imply that we are perfect or even obeying perfectly throughout our day to day lives, because all you have to do is ask my children and they will be all too happy to tell you how often mom losses it. Boy do i lose. But I can say that in terms of the adoption process, we have tried our best to simply obey in whatever capacity He has called. AND IT HAS BEEN SO COOL TO WATCH HIM WORK! Both Jonathan and I long to...

Today while filling out paperwork and an application related to our adoption process, we were asked this question, which seems to be fitting for a 'blog page post '. It's something I want everyone who asks us about our adoption story to know. How has God led you to adopt?  The answer seems simple, yet in many ways so profound. Through His Word, the Bible, he tells his children, to take care of widows and orphans. That pretty much sums up our God prompting. Basically, He tells us to do it. Take care of them, somehow and in someway. That's it. Now that 'take care' could look very different depending on which believer you ask. God is the one who calls us to obey, and He is the one who gives us the ability to do just that, in whichever capacity He equips. So for some, the 'take care' takes the form of adoption, for others it could be through volunteer work in churches, orphanages, after school programs, schools, etc. and for others it could be through ...