In case you were wondering, we're still here. :) Still waiting. Hoping one day very soon we will be able to make a happy, sweet announcement of another child joining our family, until then, we're trying to enjoy our time together as a family of 3.
I just want to say thank you to each of you for your prayers and for your texts, phone calls and facebook messages of encouragement over the last several weeks. It is what has carried us through! Every message has been read, even if it wasn't responded to. So, thank you!
This has been hard. Probably harder than both of our miscarriages. Seeing her face, knowing her name, her birthdate, planning for her, telling our daughter at home about her...but we are healing.
I still think about her. I wonder what she's doing. If everything is okay with her and her family now. I pray for her. I pray for her birth family. Just today I was looking at her picture I have hanging at work just wishing I could hug her. Tell her she'll always be loved and adored by our family.
I know that we're not the only ones who have suffered this kind of loss and as adoptions go, we probably won't be the last. But God heals, and for us, knowing she is okay makes it easier. I know not every family can say the same. While we thought she was perfect for our family, we always wanted what was best for her. Always. And we're trusting that this was it. To be reunited with her biological family. Her siblings and her birth mother. I pray that God will always provide for them. Always keep them together and protect them.
For those that hadn't seen her picture, here she is - our Noella:
Our sweet and beautiful girl. The little girl that stole our hearts from the moment we saw her. We will love and adore you forever!
Again, thank you so much for remembering our family in your prayers! And please pray for the other families who have gone through this kind of loss recently as well. It's not easy. And some days it makes you wonder if you're doing what God really called you to do. But He gives you the strength to push through to another day. And you realize every child is worth it. Because every child deserves a family and a happy future!
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She also touched our lives. We felt the loss of a grandchild, although not nearly as deeply as Hannah & Adam. I hope that someday, maybe we can meet her and hug her and tell her just how much we wanted her in our family.
We don't know why things happen, but a good response is "What do you want me to learn from this, God?" because we can always learn something.
We, too, await the day that we get news of another grandchild "on the way". Until then, we pray for God to send a child that will fit into our family perfectly. He alone knows who and how that can be accomplished, and we pray that we can leave that in His capable hands.
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