Well today the journey begins.  We start the classes required to be a foster-to-adopt parent.

As my faithful readers know we have adopted one child already.  On top of our three biological children. 

My heart for adoption was set a long time ago, and our previous adoption was really a gift from God.  We didn't plan for it, we certainly weren't ready for it.  Saw God move from early on in the process.

• Was the beginning of a church change.
• Had a connection from many years ago come back to actually provide 100% free legal help.
• Had a family pay every dime of the remaining adoption cost.

There was so much that could have gone wrong, and it didn't.  There was so much that could have gone right, and they did.

Some would look at our family and say we are nuts.  I remember a sweet old lady from our first church who was upset when we had our third!  And for many reasons this doesn't make sense.

• Five children!
• Things are great in our family.
• Five children!!
• Money
• Five children!!!

But there are many reasons why this does make sense.

• It models our faith to our children.
• It models our faith to our family.
• It models our faith to our friends.
• It models our faith to our church.
• This child is likely living through hell right now.

However, most importantly:

IT PLEASES GOD

I have a lot to share about adoption, I think that will be my first post 40 days of focus theme.