Guest: Two Miracles – One Adoption

A toddler boy is what they told us.  As we had prayerfully moved down the road to adoption to start our family in the summer of 2009, we had been told by agencies that most people that have a gender preference from Ethiopia want a girl. We were thrilled with the idea of a boy to start our family. Jon and I inquired more and prayed through age ranges as we thought about being first time parents.  “Everyone wants babies” another agency said.  Okay, we don’t need a baby.  We were told to wait for our referral of a toddler boy.

Our house was a flurry of excitement as we dreamed about holding our toddler boy in our arms.  We prayed diligently for him and his birth family.  Books about toddler adoption cluttered our nightstands as we gleaned all the information we could from them.

A few months passed and we had an agency change. It was discouraging to think about a longer wait time, but could see God’s hand moving and so we followed.  Over the Christmas season, God began to quietly press on our hearts a desire for two children.  We hashed through every angle as we had told that a twin referral was “like lightening striking” and because our age range was toddler and younger, a sibling group would be virtually impossible.

Early January 2010, we sat listening to a man share his testimony of God’s faithfulness to him during his time with cancer and then the prayers of faith of many on his behalf and his subsequent, miraculous healing, our hearts were moved.  Jon and I went home and on Monday, we heard our dossier arrived in Ethiopia, we were on the waiting list! Monday night, we poured out our hearts before God, “Father, You are pressing on our hearts that we are supposed to bring home two children with this adoption, but Father, we lack faith, so we pray that You would work a miracle and bring us two children.  Give us the faith to believe You can do this!” We fell asleep, hunkering down for a long wait but peaceful that God was in control.

Two days later, I received a call from our social worker.  We chatted a bit and then she said, “Amy, one week old, twin sisters need a Mommy and Daddy.  Would you and Jon be open to looking at their information?” I fell to the floor in a puddle of tears and when I could contain myself enough to talk, all I could do was praise God.

April 2010, less then eleven months after God had moved us down the path of adoption, we traveled to Ethiopia to bring home our treasures, our 5 month-old, twin baby girls. We still have never heard an explanation about why we waited two days and then were matched with baby girls but not a day has passed in which we have not praised God for this double blessing!

“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21