A lesson in humility and God's abundant blessings...

The biggest lesson we have learned through our journey with infertility and adoption is that God has an ultimate plan and may not answer our prayers in the way we ask (or think we want) - especially on our timetable.  God has a design - more amazing than we could ever imagine.  We are less than an amateurs in this thing called life and he is the life giver - the creator - the visionary.  So as much as Chad and I have prayed for God to answer our prayers for pregnancy (our plan), our prayers were never answered in the way that we thought they would be.  Being completely human, we often questioned God - and thought that maybe he didn't hear us - or that we weren't doing enough good - or we were not good enough.  But that just isn't the truth.  It isn't even the point.  He heard us, alright.  He heard us as clearly as he heard Jesus on the cross asking for him to take his burden, his cup, if it was his will.  But He had a greater plan.  Thank you Father, for your strength in sticking to your ultimate plan.   Thank you Father for using this journey to bring us to a place of brokenness - a place where we needed to be in order to surrender to your plans.  Thank you for a greater faith and peace in whatever your plan will be.  You have taught us to surrender ourselves in so many ways.  As God is allowing us an amazing healing in this process, we are seeing the most incredible outpouring of his Grace and Mercy and Blessings in abundance.  We kicked off our fundraiser at church today, and were honestly overwhelmed with the support in this venture. 

Not only did we have amazing support, but we sat watching (and weeping), as our Pastor shared about Mother's Day and our special speakers who have adopted 3 children and have 1 miracle baby.  He shared a bit about our journey and then he announced that the Church would be supporting us in ways we never imagined.  God is chiseling away at our pride.  He is using this journey to humble us.  We prayed a couple of weeks ago in our small group for support from our church family  because we knew we could not go on this journey without them. Wow. What an incredible answer to prayer! 

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. ⁴ For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love ⁵ he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.  Ephesians 1:3-6

Thanks for walking this journey with us.  We are loving these glimpses God is giving us of his plan. 

Also, thank you SO much for your amazing support of our fundraiser. 

We have a BUSY week planned with our fabulous friends making candy and preparing flower bouquets. 

Once we get through the fundraiser, we will give you an update on our financial progress. 

Love,

Chad and Kristle