Hills & Valleys: Our Faith Journey

Today, we received some disappointing news with our adoption. We heard back from Zoe's House (the new agency we were pursuing) earlier this afternoon, and they told us that they have determined they cannot accept any adoptive families with children at this time. The reason behind that decision is that most expectant mama's want to place with a childless family rather than one who already has children. While we understand the position the agency is in, our hearts are hurting. I wish I could tell expectant mamas our story, how hard of a journey it was to even have Selah, how much of a miracle her life is...that adoption was anything but an afterthought for us. Unfortunately, we do not have that option at this point. This journey towards growing our family has been so long and so hard every step of the way. Nine years of waiting, hoping, believing, wrestling, and trying to hold on amidst the tears. It feels like endless years of grief, of sowing without reaping. I am so

Hi friends! It's hard to believe it's been SIX MONTHS since our last update!! Where has the time gone?! We have had many people ask us how our adoption is going over the past few months. Unfortunately, there really hasn't been much progress until recently. From Nov-March, we continued selling bits and pieces around our home to help with our adoption fund. We officially reached our goal of saving $10,000 towards our adoption!! I am amazed and blown away to think that all those $1 and $2 sales added up BIG time! (Side note: approx $2k of these funds were used in paying for our home study.) For the past six weeks or so, we've been prayerfully considering the direction for our adoption to take. Our "agency," COMPACT Family Services, has not had a single case since we signed on with them last March, and we began wondering if we needed to look elsewhere. :( They have sent us a few adoption situations from another agency, but that agency has had some significant