Let the journey 'begin'
Melissa Fischer
Today was a good day. Travis and I got to have a phone call with our adoption consultant. {She is so sweet!} This is the first “official” step in our adoption process! We signed the papers. We have “officially” started the journey to our third born. I use quotation marks because really God began this journey in our hearts many years ago, but now is that time that He has made it clear to us we are to pursue this call. I really can’t believe it!
I continue to be amazed at the peace, excitement and joy the Lord is giving me on this journey that is filled with so many unknowns and so many things out of my control. Granted, we’ve {barely} just begun, so I may be eating my words later. I’m not so sure I will though. I am not naive enough to think that we will go through this process without extreme emotional highs and lows or without bumps in the road. EVERYONE I have ever talked to who has completed an adoption as told me of the emotional strain and the ways the adoption stretched them in ways they didn’t know were possible. I expect that. I expect that the Lord will take us to places that cause us to rely on Him in ways we never have before…
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