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The silence

Sometimes the road to adoption is very silent. You never know if anything is going to happen, you're so uncertain if the dream of a little baby in your home will ever happen and really just wondering if you will hear anything at all. For a couple of months now we have been silent and the other day I learned something about the silence that has really helped. A wise person shared with me that the adoption process becomes silent because the ones walking through it allow it to become silent by not talking or asking about and simply being silent themselves. So by learning this I have decided we should not be silent and continue to share and continue to educate others. Plus we know statistically that the more people who know you are trying to adopt, the better chance we have of running into someone who knows someone that wants to place their baby for adoption. So as we wait and when the silence becomes a little much, hopefully, we will find the strength to continue talk about our adoption and ask you guys join us in prayer. I feel it is important that we share the prayer requests so we could all be praying in the same manner. 
  
* Please pray for the baby that we will adopt (we are excited about this and  we are asking God to bless these efforts and due to many medical reasons we are not looking for nor praying for a biological child.  We know all things are possible with God, but adoption is our calling for our family now)
* Please pray for the birth mom because of the difficult decision she must make and for a healthy pregnancy and birth.
* Please pray for saving and raising of the funds.
* Please pray for us to be matched in God's timing and with our baby Hornbaker. 

We are praising the Lord because as we wait we have still been receiving wonderful, generous gifts and people being creative in helping us reach our financial goals. 

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  1. JoannaAugust 31, 2012 at 6:42 PM

    Just letting you know that ya'll have been in our prayers frequently these days. The waiting is hard and long...we love you.

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