Molly Faith became our daughter officially this week! Of course she’s been our daughter since the moment we laid eyes on her but this week the judge made it official.
Babies are a people magnet. We haven’t been anywhere recently where someone doesn’t come up to us and ask to see “the baby”. Even at Lowe’s we are approached by ladies buying paint and screwdrivers!
The one phrase that keeps popping up is “You are very lucky”. The quick, easy response is “Yes, yes we are”. But that easy answer is not the true answer.
Babies are a people magnet. We haven’t been anywhere recently where someone doesn’t come up to us and ask to see “the baby”. Even at Lowe’s we are approached by ladies buying paint and screwdrivers!
The one phrase that keeps popping up is “You are very lucky”. The quick, easy response is “Yes, yes we are”. But that easy answer is not the true answer.
Luck had NOTHING to do with our situation.
What I want to tell people is-God had EVERYTHING to do with our situation.
Only God could have made all this happen for us.
We are blessed beyond measure with this beautiful child.
And we have God, one selfless young woman and thousands of prayers to thank for this blessing.
Luck is a saying on a Chinese fortune cookie. We are not lucky. We are experiencing a miracle!
A dear friend gave me a bookmark on the day we went to court. It says:
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
I know that the Lord may lead someone to read this posting who is struggling with infertility. She and her husband have tried for years to conceive and they are tired, and losing hope that they will ever have their dream of a child. I have been there. And then, 10 years into my marriage- God brought us Cori Joy! For 3 years and 364 days we experienced more joy than our hearts could hold. She made us a mommy and daddy and everything we had dreamed of came true in that one little girl.
There are going to be those reading this who have lost a child. Perhaps, like us, their only child. Their child may have had a genetic disorder and they are concerned that another child born to them would also suffer the same illness. Or maybe they are older and the opportunity to have another child is not a possibility. And yet they long for a child to bring joy back to their lives again. And it seems an impossible situation. I have been there too. And then, 4 years later God brought us Molly Faith! My prayer is that we will experience a lifetime with Molly and we are once again a mommy and daddy with lots of hopes and dreams for this little girl.
To those people I want to say, please don’t lose FAITH. Miracles still happen! God is working in your lives to bring YOU a miracle. The miracle may be invisible to you-but it isn’t to God-he sees it clearly. Believe that He is about to do something incredible in your heart and life. And then, in His time-you will be ready to receive the impossible.
I know that when you are going through a struggle, hearing someone else-who is on the other side of that struggle tell you to hold on or keep going…can ring hollow.
A dear friend gave me a bookmark on the day we went to court. It says:
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
I know that the Lord may lead someone to read this posting who is struggling with infertility. She and her husband have tried for years to conceive and they are tired, and losing hope that they will ever have their dream of a child. I have been there. And then, 10 years into my marriage- God brought us Cori Joy! For 3 years and 364 days we experienced more joy than our hearts could hold. She made us a mommy and daddy and everything we had dreamed of came true in that one little girl.
There are going to be those reading this who have lost a child. Perhaps, like us, their only child. Their child may have had a genetic disorder and they are concerned that another child born to them would also suffer the same illness. Or maybe they are older and the opportunity to have another child is not a possibility. And yet they long for a child to bring joy back to their lives again. And it seems an impossible situation. I have been there too. And then, 4 years later God brought us Molly Faith! My prayer is that we will experience a lifetime with Molly and we are once again a mommy and daddy with lots of hopes and dreams for this little girl.
To those people I want to say, please don’t lose FAITH. Miracles still happen! God is working in your lives to bring YOU a miracle. The miracle may be invisible to you-but it isn’t to God-he sees it clearly. Believe that He is about to do something incredible in your heart and life. And then, in His time-you will be ready to receive the impossible.
I know that when you are going through a struggle, hearing someone else-who is on the other side of that struggle tell you to hold on or keep going…can ring hollow.
“It happened to them but what if it doesn’t happen for me?”
Those years that I thought I would never give birth I used to pray that if that was not God’s will for my life He would fill my life with something that would bring me contentment. We sought parenthood through independent adoption and then foster care. It was truly at a time when getting pregnant was not even in our minds-that God gave us Cori Joy.
After she died I felt like the only thing I had ever thought I was good at-being a mother-was over-forever. I longed for the feeling being Cori’s mom gave me inside. I told God how much I loved being a mommy. I again asked Him to bring something into my life to replace that longing. We started the foster care process again, and tried to find other ways of reaching out to help Gods people and then, out of the blue the call came about Molly!
So- today if your dream is to be a parent for the first time, or to be a parent again, or even if you are in need of a different kind of miracle, give God the desire of your heart and hold on to that “invisible, incredible and impossible Faith”. God loves you, he “delights” in blessing you! And as you are waiting for the invisible to become visible-if you need a reminder of what God can do-just remember Cori Joy and Molly Faith!
Those years that I thought I would never give birth I used to pray that if that was not God’s will for my life He would fill my life with something that would bring me contentment. We sought parenthood through independent adoption and then foster care. It was truly at a time when getting pregnant was not even in our minds-that God gave us Cori Joy.
After she died I felt like the only thing I had ever thought I was good at-being a mother-was over-forever. I longed for the feeling being Cori’s mom gave me inside. I told God how much I loved being a mommy. I again asked Him to bring something into my life to replace that longing. We started the foster care process again, and tried to find other ways of reaching out to help Gods people and then, out of the blue the call came about Molly!
So- today if your dream is to be a parent for the first time, or to be a parent again, or even if you are in need of a different kind of miracle, give God the desire of your heart and hold on to that “invisible, incredible and impossible Faith”. God loves you, he “delights” in blessing you! And as you are waiting for the invisible to become visible-if you need a reminder of what God can do-just remember Cori Joy and Molly Faith!
