Family Day

This past Thanksgiving we celebrated our third annual Family Day....We celebrate this day to remember those first moments that we were together at last...a FAMILY. When I think about our family day, what comes to mind is what is captured in these few photos. (There are lots more, but I'm limited to 4 here, you're welcome!) Our first day together as a family were spent in a beautiful hotel room with a magnificent city view of Seoul. The room seemed to be glowing with perfect light and abundance of love. I remember the crispness of this time together. It was so tender, so new, peaceful and happy, and so incredibly special. We walked into our hotel room that was our makeshift home for the next 24 hours and closed the door....all the business of the outside world quieted down. All the legalities and agencies and governments and paperwork behind us. And we flopped onto the crisp white bed and snuggled...and played...and laughed...and read our first baby book. We made funny faces and laughed some more. Sylas would crawl between us and get up close to our faces to really check us out. He would trace our mouths, eyes and noses with his little hands....like he already knew us in his heart. That is truly how it felt. It must have been God's grace calming his sweet little soul and letting him know we were his family. He seemed new and a little like a stranger to us, but it really didn't seemed like we strangers to him. It's hard to explain...that's how God works sometimes, I guess. It was an enormous miracle that God had known about all along. When I think back to the day in 2005 that God asked us to create our family through adoption...it felt a little like a sacrifice. Going against the innate desire to procreate and to see a little of ourselves in a child, seemed like a bit of a sacrifice. And then on
the other hand it was like, really!? You are giving us the green light to do this? A dream come true?
Something I've been contemplating for years, adoption! Thank you!! And then before we met our son, there were days it still felt like a sacrifice.....but now, it's purely a dream come true and a blessing richer than anything we could have ever imagined. No sacrifice in the equation anywhere. God's plan is always so much better than anything mankind can ever come up with. I always new that in theory, but through this experience, God proved it to me to the Nth degree. I still stand in awe when I stop to think of how he formed our family.I challenge you.....what is God asking you to do? What has he asked you to do that you are still contemplating? Or maybe you haven't heard Him ask you yet...just listen. It may seem BIG or it may seem little to you. I encourage you to say YES!!! And boldly do it. It's worth while, trust me, it's worth while.