Faith, Hope, Love and Perseverance

For those of you who regular follow this blog, We usually post about events and pictures of who we are so that others will no. The purpose behind this blog is to hopefully be chosen to become adoptive parents of a child.

So in effort to express ourselves we are stepping away from our normal posts to do something a little different.

So here goes.....

We have spent most of our lives trying to continue to move forward. We are taught that we should be planning for the future. If you think about it that is all that we do from the time that we are born until we die. For example; when we are born we are encourage to start laughing, then talking; ie...first words, walking, running, learning ABC's and so continues the pattern. Then we continue to progress toward the future. School, grades, driver  license, graduation, then college, marriage and; between the last two for some, is a mission. Then kids come along and careers and everyday living.

Sometimes the above plan becomes the standard or tradtion dictates that we are to do things a certain way and if we don't we fail.

So what happens when things do not goes as plan. That is when if the situation gets bad enough we want to give up.

The first time that this situation happened to us was when we experienced our first miscarriage. We did everything right; no smoking, drinking and took care of ourselves yet it still happened. The devastation was drastic and it took as a long time to get over the loss of a child. But somehow we found the faith and hope to continue on. Trusting that Heavenly Father knew us and was aware of who we are. The next time we found ourselves in the normal traditional game plan for life happened when we experienced our second lose. We had another miscarriage last December.

During these past four years after much prayer as to what we should do to continue to Move Forward we decided to adopt. We started the process over a year ago and during this time period there have been moments of struggle and heartache for not having things happen sooner. We have had many moments of grief over our loss and struggles in getting approved and waiting for our children to come to us.

It has been in those moments when the faith and hope and perseverance is needed. We have learned through life's struggle no matter what others may say that our lives are in the one person who knows the whole Picture: Heavenly Father. We are not sure why we have to face certain trials but we can count on the Love of our one parent who has experience what we have : Heavenly Father.

We personally have seen that by love, faith, hope and perseverance in the life of a people that come across our paths. To us the people that exemplifies these qualities is birth parents. If for no other reason they have become the reason that we decided to adopt.Yes we have experienced loss in the children that did not come to us here but they are people who are faced with some of the hardest decisions and make the ultimate sacrifice for a love of a child. The only other person who has done that has been Our Heavenly Father- He sacrificed His son- Jesus Christ. He did so willing and it is something that we have yet to comprehend but we know it is real.

This post is somewhat rambled together but to some it up we are blessed to know that we are loved and that with faith, hope, perseverance we can accomplish anything. This has been a reminder to never give up no matter how are hard it may.

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