First step

I want to start off by saying thank you! The response to us telling you all about wanting to adopt was overwhelming in a good way. We are so thankful for all the encouraging words, texts and phone calls. You don’t know how much they mean to us. We thanked God for another confirmation that this is supposed to be what we are doing right now and we have an army of people in our corner praying for us and encouraging us along the way. It also made us even more excited to share our story. We want everyone to understand that we are not sharing our story for our glory. We are sharing our story so God gets the glory. If anything, we want our story to bring you closer to Christ, or if you don’t know Him we want you to get to know Him as your Lord and Savior. Maybe you are going through infertility or something similar.  We want you to see how he has a greater plan for us than our own. We want you to see how God has his hand in each and every decision we make and how he perfectly orchestrates it all. When this is all said and done we will be able to look back and see all of that. We can already see some of it now.

With all that being said, let me get to our first step.

Picking an agency. We made some call yesterday and have a few more calls to make this week. We are working on narrowing down some agencies and then going to some info meetings. I don’t know if it was the devil trying to get me down or what but I got really nervous before I started calling agencies. It took me a little while to dial the first number. Who knows it could of just been the fact that starting to call was making this even more real. Some of the unknown with all this can be a little nerve racking. You get pregnant, and MOST of time you have 9 months to know when your child will arrive. Not knowing a time frame or when you will get a child, that unknown is a little different. Once you start calling, then we need to go to some info meetings and then choose an agency. (No big deal right). But not every agency has frequent info meetings or we both might work the night of the next one and that can be discouraging because we just want it all to happen quickly. So we must remind ourselves to be patient. God’s timing not ours.

So that is where we are right now. Making phone calls. We will then choose some info meetings to go to and then choose an agency.

Prayer request:

1. Patience. Patience because this is not a quick process
2. Prayers wisdom and discernment as we talk to agencies and choose which info meetings to go.
3. That we will be faithful not fearful
4. Pray for our future child, that they are being loved right now and knowing that Christ loves them.
5. Continue to hear God’s voice and be able to clearly hear him speak when making decisions.

Love,

Nick and Brittany