I leave the house about 5 am every week day. On this daily trip I listen to Focus on The Family. One morning in October 2019 (I think) they had a show on adoption. God spoke to me during this 30 minute radio show and I thought well I need to tell Lovie about this. I texted her and asked her to pray and think about adoption. Nothing else was really said for several weeks between us about adoption. I did not mention adoption to anyone else. During that time though God was reminding me of His plan. Things I read mentioned adoption. My devotions mentioned adoption. Everyday conversations I had with friends and coworkers would lead to adoption in passing or directly.
Yes, God I hear you, but Lovie has to be on board. I asked her if she had thought about it and she told me yes a little bit but not much. I told her about how God seems to be highlighting it in my life. One night I woke from sleep 3 times and my heart was heavy about this decision to adopt and knew we both had to be on board so all 3 times I reached over and laid my hand on Lovie and prayed to God to reveal what you have laid on my heart to her so I know this is what you want us to do. On that morning of Dec 10th I got a text from Lovie about her day at school so far. Her text read,”Adoption has came up 3 times this morning. We are in chapel and seeing Annie preview and talking about God and how we are all adopted. Also a couple here is adopting and today is her Pampered Chef fundraiser. We had a student ask Amy what is adoption? ” I think God reveals His plan to us more times than we realize. Many times we are not looking for it and miss it but this was not one of those times. It was like a flashing sign that read “This Way” with a big arrow that also read, “yes Tim I am talking to you”.
Okay we are going to adopt, great. Now what do I do, is what I started asking. How do you adopt? From where, how long does it take? Boy or Girl? Many questions started to pop up from this revelation in our lives that I had no clue to.