Christmas time is here! As of the day of this posting, only 16 days remain until Christmas day. For me, Christmas is all about celebrating the Birth of Jesus, and spending time with family. This is the first year we have faithfully used an Advent Calendar with the kids to countdown the days until we celebrate the coming of the Savior. The month of December also marks a special time for me, for just one year ago in this very month we began to figure out how we were going to embark on this adoption journey.
One thing that has always stuck with me is a quote that the executive director of our adoption agency shared with us at a training meeting: "Trust The Process". I have had to remind myself of that more and more as each day has gone by. Our family has encountered a variety of Birth Moms, each of whom have declined to pick our family to become a part of their family. Its at those times when you find out that you weren't picked that you begin to doubt, or think, "what's wrong with our family that we aren't getting picked?" During a season that is full of Christmas wishes and gifts, the one thing I would want more than anything is to have the gift of a Birth Mom, to have my family be matched with a wonderful woman making a very personal and great sacrifice. That is my Christmas wish, yet I know that is not how it works. So as I wish for that beautiful moment when a birth mom chooses us, I will continue to trust the process, to know that the waiting that our family is experiencing is not in vain.
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