Where Do I Even Start?
It's been 4 days since we brought Baby M home. As I sit here in the quiet morning, I hear him stir in his crib, and I am so overwhelmed at being able to be a part of his life. It's been 4 days, and everything has changed. My home literally looks like a tornado went through it. Chores are half done everywhere. The floor smells like formula. The couch smells like formula. I smell like formula. Belle somehow has become the best smelling thing in the house. I have rediscovered 2am. I see books lying around, begging to be read. My once cherry-blossom-themed bathroom now has a duck motif.
It's been 4 days, and I have gained the world. I cannot even express to you the feelings that well up when I look at sweet Baby M. In God's grace he has made our first placement an absolute joy. Our boy is healthy and energetic, sleeps and eats relatively well, and smiles and laughs so deeply that your heart melts. The knowledge that God is allowing you to work side by side with him is overwhelming. I have given up reading for napping (for now), baking for playtime (for now), and quick runs to the store for much much longer ones. But in actuality, it doesn't even feel like “giving up”; it feels like trading up. Are the days easy? No. But “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).
On the day we brought M home, God placed a beautiful double rainbow in the sky. He couldn't have spoken to us any clearer: he keeps his promises. We could not do this without your prayer and support. Thank you for ministering with us. There are so many needy children out there. It's been 4 days, and everything has changed. I'd like to end this note with a passage from scripture that has become very important to me over the last few months:
Ephesians 3:13-21
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
It's been 4 days, and I have gained the world. I cannot even express to you the feelings that well up when I look at sweet Baby M. In God's grace he has made our first placement an absolute joy. Our boy is healthy and energetic, sleeps and eats relatively well, and smiles and laughs so deeply that your heart melts. The knowledge that God is allowing you to work side by side with him is overwhelming. I have given up reading for napping (for now), baking for playtime (for now), and quick runs to the store for much much longer ones. But in actuality, it doesn't even feel like “giving up”; it feels like trading up. Are the days easy? No. But “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).
On the day we brought M home, God placed a beautiful double rainbow in the sky. He couldn't have spoken to us any clearer: he keeps his promises. We could not do this without your prayer and support. Thank you for ministering with us. There are so many needy children out there. It's been 4 days, and everything has changed. I'd like to end this note with a passage from scripture that has become very important to me over the last few months:
Ephesians 3:13-21
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
This brought happy tears to my eyes...we love Baby M so much already and are so happy that he's part of our family.
ReplyDeletebeautiful :) just like you! God has you in the grasp of his palm...
ReplyDeleteI switched to reading magazines instead of books :)
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