Ben and I were at Subway tonight doing our homework from Class # 3 (Yes, we have homework each week!) and took some time to process what we've learned so far through this journey. It's been really helpful for me to take time each week to blog about what I'm thinking and feeling--but it's hard to find time for Ben and I both to share what we are thinking together!
One phrase that has really stuck with us is that adoption, although not our first choice, isn't second best either. Since our classes have been focusing on the birth family these last two weeks this phrase also made me think of the birth mom. It probably wasn't her plan to get pregnant and have a baby at this point in her life just as it wasn't our plan to struggle with infertility. However adoption provides a solution for both parties involved. The birth mom will be able to place her child with a family (us!) who can love and take care of it since she can't at this point in her life. And at the same time we will get to raise the child we have been yearning for these last three years!
God is pretty cool in how he works! All of this reminds me of how it wasn't God's plan for sin to ever enter the world in the first place. However when it did he provided salvation from those sins through Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross! He also probably never planned for the unplanned pregnancies that so many women face but again has provided a way out for some of these women through adoption!
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