Birthmothers

I was reading our book for our home study/training...

One of the adoptive mothers made an amazing analogy that I wanted to share.

God gave up His Son. And a birth mother gives up her child. It isn't that the child is holy as God's Son is, but it's that the act of giving up your child is something so hard, something holy.

If I were a birth mother, I'd be so blessed to consider myself taking a leap of faith and trusting God; I'd be so blessed to remind myself that God Himself gave His Son in a world that would only hurt and attack Him. Whereas, a birth mother can rest with the peace of knowing that her adoptive family has worked so hard to adopt that baby... only to love, cherish, protect, and bless him/her.

I don't know... it just seemed so cool to me.

Adoption updates?
We are finishing reading our book, have some online trainings to do (still!), and we will have a training with our case worker at the end of the month. Please keep praying for us. It's a long, emotional, hard journey. But we pray that one day our child will bring as much joy to all of you who are praying for us and helping us out as he/she will to us. And believe me- we will be overjoyed.