Waiting in Faith
Waiting is hard for me, it always has been. I am a very impatient person. I believe God is working on my impatience and teaching me to wait gracefully. I fail every day! Waiting in an adoption is a different kind of waiting. This waiting not only stretches your patience, but it stretches your faith. Being in the waiting process of adoption is were I struggle the most. I am trying to wait in faith, but as I said I fail daily.
With adoption waiting can take 3 weeks or over 100, we don't know when our wait will end. Just like we as believers are waiting to be reunited with Christ, we don't know when that wait will end. There are days when I'm ready to just say I'm done so the wait can be over. Somedays, I get so busy I somewhat forget we are waiting, these are the days I love because I'm not focused on waiting.
This October we are not only waiting in adoption, but we are awaiting the 1 year anniversary of Calvin's death. This wait is not so easy. Waiting for this anniversary is a hard wait. We are ready for this wait to be over and we look forward to October 23 when we can say we did it, we persevered and got through this last year full of firsts. Just as we look forward to bringing our child home and saying we did it, we persevered and got through the waiting to bring you home.
We are waiting in faith. We have faith and hope that God will do his will in our lives and will show us his glory through this waiting time. We have faith that it won't be for naught and there is a reason for this waiting period that seems to never end. We have experienced our faith in many real ways over the last 4 years and God has been so gracious to us through it all. Our faith is strong and we will continue to wait in faith. We know our hope in is God and not a new baby, an expectant mom that has chosen adoption, an adoption agency, or ourselves.
While this wait tends to cause us to grow weary at times, we are excited to watch God work and continue His story.
With adoption waiting can take 3 weeks or over 100, we don't know when our wait will end. Just like we as believers are waiting to be reunited with Christ, we don't know when that wait will end. There are days when I'm ready to just say I'm done so the wait can be over. Somedays, I get so busy I somewhat forget we are waiting, these are the days I love because I'm not focused on waiting.
This October we are not only waiting in adoption, but we are awaiting the 1 year anniversary of Calvin's death. This wait is not so easy. Waiting for this anniversary is a hard wait. We are ready for this wait to be over and we look forward to October 23 when we can say we did it, we persevered and got through this last year full of firsts. Just as we look forward to bringing our child home and saying we did it, we persevered and got through the waiting to bring you home.
We are waiting in faith. We have faith and hope that God will do his will in our lives and will show us his glory through this waiting time. We have faith that it won't be for naught and there is a reason for this waiting period that seems to never end. We have experienced our faith in many real ways over the last 4 years and God has been so gracious to us through it all. Our faith is strong and we will continue to wait in faith. We know our hope in is God and not a new baby, an expectant mom that has chosen adoption, an adoption agency, or ourselves.
While this wait tends to cause us to grow weary at times, we are excited to watch God work and continue His story.
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