Adoption. Kirsten and I started talking about it when we started dating. What should we do? When should we adopt? Why should we? Can we make this work? These were the question that were running through my head and some of those questions are still running through my head now. My then girlfriend and now wife continued to have these conversations with me but nothing seemed to take place towards starting the process. We loved the idea of adding a little kiddo to our family but we didn’t know what that looked like until just recently.

My wife and I have had our fair share of struggles in the 2 years we have been married. We have lost 3 children and that has been hard to cope with and learn how to love God in our valley and walk forward in our call to glorify Christ. We lost Matthias, Avery, and Riley, but they are with the Lord and they will dwell in His house forever.

I say this because adoption has never been our back up plan, nor has it been an answer to loss, rather it is the call on my wife and I to love the lost and care for the orphan. This is a priority to us and to adopt means that we are helping the child not only by giving them a life they deserve but by making Jesus a priority in their lives.

Our intention through this process is not that we would just be given a kid. We are here so that Christ would be known and that we would be a light in dark places. We are here to care for the orphan and the widow. We are here because we were given the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus and the sacrifice that he made on the cross, so that we could be called children of God because we have been adopted for life.

God has been good to us through these years of knowing each other and we are looking forward to this adventure together. Pray that we would see what the Lord wants us to see and we would not only rely on Him, but that we would find our strength in Him.