While I was still pregnant with our son, my husband declared that "if this is a boy, we're done". He was a boy. It wasn't that he didn't want more kids, it was that he didn't want me to be pregnant again. I asked God to take away my desire to have more children of my own. In January of '05, he took away that desire. After a mission trip to Haiti in October '05, my husband returned home and said that he wanted us to think about adopting. In a matter of nine months, God took my desire to have more kids away and replaced that with my husband's desire to adopt.
So, in January '06, we started to pray. About three weeks later, my husband learned about an orphanage in Haiti that was run by a couple originally from Ohio. He found out about it through a co-worker he didn't know, but happened to sit next to at a meeting. This co-worker grew up with the daughters of this couple who now run the orphanage in Haiti known as H.I.S. Home for Children. We contacted them and started investigating adopting from Haiti, waiting for clear direction from God.
After returning from a retreat in September, my husband announced it was time to turn in our application. We got onto the HIS Home website, printed out the information and submitted it. Within a couple of days we were accepted, and so began our adoption journey.
We were given the option to choose one of 4-2 month old baby boys. We were given a picture of 3 of them in a crib and then asked for pictures of their faces.
We wanted to see which one God had in mind for us - and we would know because we would immediatly fall in love with him even though we had never met him. That is exactly what happened. We immediately fell in love with a beautiful baby boy, John Cary. After learning his story, we decided to name him Jonathan David, keeping his first name as his given name by his biological mom and his middle name as my father-in-law's middle name. (No, I didn't miss type the name of my blog...you'll learn why it is Joshua and not Jonathan in future posts.)
We were thrilled to be adding to our family - and to be doing exactly what we felt God called us to do. We had no idea the journey we were about to take, the ups and downs, happy times and very sad times. Our journey is similar, in some ways, to the adoption journeys of others; and very different in other ways. But this is our journey and the lessons we have learned thus far aren't about adopting, but about life. Life is a journey we take - we can either choose to walk the journey alone, or we can choose to walk with our Father in Heaven. We have chosen to walk with God and allow him to mold and change us. As we take each step of this journey, we trust Him and his plan - for us, for our family, for our adoption.
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