How we came to Adoption

Earlier in our marriage, we unexpectedly got pregnant a few times and miscarried very early. Once we started actually trying to get pregnant we weren’t successful and ended up starting infertility treatment. We already knew I (Brook) had one condition that could cause problems which wasn’t huge, but a problem nonetheless. All the other tests on both of us came up great so we were very encouraged and excited. I started Clomid, which didn’t work the first time. The second month I couldn’t do it because my body wasn’t in a receptive state. I was surprised that I felt completely ok with it. It was through these months that my desire for pregnancy decreased and my desire for adoption rapidly increased. I was praying that God would make it more clear to us which road he wanted us to go down because I was really wanting to adopt. One evening I was at a meeting at church where we had some worship and prayer time and I was just telling God how much I wanted to adopt and I wanted to know if this was what He wanted for us. After the meeting I came home and Chris said to me “Here, I gotta show you something.” He had pulled up on the computer a slideshow that someone from our church had made of a recent mission trip to Swaziland, Africa. From the very first to the very last picture I cried and cried. After it was over he asked me why I was crying so much. I said to him, “I just really want to adopt.” He laughed a little and said, “I did the exact same thing when I watched this. I told God that if this is what He wanted for us that I wanted confirmation through your reaction.” Needless to say, we both cried and were so excited at what was now before us. We are completely overjoyed and thrilled to meet our child!

We have started the process and at this point we are still in the beginning stages but we will keep you updated as it progresses. We have both always thought it would be really great to adopt and just never felt that it was the right time. Now we can see that God is calling us to it. We are believing that he has the perfect child at the perfect time and is going to work miracles to make it happen. We have been told by friends that have adopted that when God calls you to adoption His blessing and grace to get through the process is unbelievable! We have already seen that in our story...