A Waiting Family

This morning I woke up, went to my Keurig and made myself some coffee. I looked over at my desk and noticed that one of my memory verses had fallen. The verse was 1 Peter 1:6  “There is wonderful joy ahead.”. This passage is about the joy that comes from our salvation and the eternity believers will spend with our loving God after the trials of this earth.  When I saw that verse it spoke to me about adoption. I know that is taking it out of contexts a little, but adoption was on my mind because we had just received the news that we are on the waiting list! Dakota and I have WONDERFUL JOY ahead of us in the form of family! We are growing our family through adoption and with that comes so much happiness.

We are excited to be on the official waiting list! Our profile book will now be shown to expectant birth parents. This is another step that involves waiting and with that comes a practice of patience!

During our wait, we ask that you keep our child, their birth-parents and Dakota and I in your prayers. 

We have specific prayers that we are lifting up:

~For God to protect the expectant birth-mother and child from any harm

~For our birth-mother to have comfort during her pregnancy and with the upcoming decisions she   will be making

~For the salvation of our child’s birth-parents if they do not know the Lord already

~For the Lord to give us patience during this process

We also wanted to keep you updated on how close we are to completing our financial goal! We hit 83% this week! 

Thank you for following along with this journey. We have the best support system!                                 

Bekah and Dakota

Nursery sneak peak ~ Fundraising update

After a month long break from the blog, we have some catching up to do! I am so sorry for not posting updates. When I last wrote a blog post I was telling you that we had completed our required training/classes and we were about to complete the profile book. We poured so many hours into this book and we think it turned out fantastic! Seeing our life in book form shows us once again that the Lord has blessed Dakota and I in so many ways. Our book is now at the adoption agency and will be shown to expectant birth mothers as soon as our home study has been approved! We have high hopes that we will be on the waiting list by next week, but we know that God has perfect timing.

This month we started to put together some items for the baby nursery. We don’t know if we will be blessed with a boy or a girl so it has to stay pretty gender neutral. We have loved dreaming about our baby in this room and although there is still a lot of work to be done, this room is our favorite! It is so fun to receive fun gifts in the mail and we have worked very hard to keep our parents from buying every baby item they come across! haha This baby is BLESSED! 

Here is a little preview of what we have done so far! Dakota built that changing table! Isn't he so talented! He is such a hard worker. 

Here is a little preview of what we have done so far!

Our fundraising meter is at 81%! If you have any fundraising ideas we would love to hear them!

Please continue to pray for patience with this process. There are days when it feels like eveyrthing is working out perfectly and there are days when it feels like we will never be on that waiting list! We need patience! Please also join us in praying for our child and his or her birth parents. We pray for their safety and comfort during this time. We know that God is using them in BIG ways and we want them to get their strength from the Lord.