Wednesday WOW MIRACLE TO SHARE WITH YOU!

Bloggy friends, I’m ecstatic (yep- I’m jumping around like crazy) to share a miracle with you today for Wednesday WOW- this is the best WOW news ever!!  I’m a brand new Auntie of a beautiful 2 year old named ANTOINETTE “ANNIE” ROSE SMALLEY!!  She currently lives at New Day Foster Home in China and her new family (my family Greg, Erin, Taylor, Maddy & Garrison) received the news today that they have been officially matched with Annie.  The story is miraculous from start to finish, but you’ll have to read their story firsthand on my sister’s blog- It’s A Smalley World.

On a personal note, we started the adoption process 4 years ago and was accepted into the China Program with AWAA. We had prayed for years for clear direction from the Lord about our adoption and dreamed of a daughter waiting for us in China.  God paved the way and we moved forward with our home study and collecting the necessary documents needed for a China adoption.  We had no idea that we would be redirected in such a crazy way- turning upside down all expectations of who our daughter was and where she was waiting for us.  We now understand that typically God does not shine Neon Lights flashing in the direction to move when you are following His ways.  The single reason we could not adopt from China at the time was the fact that my hubby has hearing loss and wears hearing aids in “dual” ears.  The new rules made it impossible for us to move forward with confidence that we would be approved by China’s regulations.  It was painful to say good-bye to our dreams of a China adoption, but we had to trust that God had a different, perfect plan for our family.   We could not have dreamed a baby girl named Senait was waiting for us in Ethiopia.

I want to challenge you to pray, seek, follow your dreams, move forward, set aside all expectations and be willing to go wherever God directs… the miracle waiting will take you to places you never dreamed possible.  Every adoption story is unique and special and challenging and difficult, but the best is yet to come. (I promise!!)  In the end, we received the miracle of a niece from China- God knew all along that my family would expand from Africa to China!  We are celebrating the joys of adoption together!!

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