Me thinks....

As I was sorting through a pile of books the other day I came across this one by Sheri Dew - "If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard."

Only the Lord knew how I needed to find the title of this book on that day.

A few weeks ago, we hit our one year mark of waiting to bring another beautiful child into our home.

You may think, "One year, that's not so bad." You are right. I've known many who have waited 2, 3 or 5 years.

Most days 1 year isn't bad. Most days the waiting doesn't hurt or ache inside my soul. Some days it does though.

Some days all I want is to see my daughter holding her new brother or sister (sister if you ask Emmy!). When she asks me where her sister is I want to reply "In her crib sleeping."

But I cannot because she (or he) is not here yet. So we wait.

But, we do not wait without having hope. We do not wait without doing all we can do. We do not just sit around and wait for the stork to bring our baby to us.

We work. We have fun. We do not put our life on hold. We spread the word and we testify to anyone that will listen how much we love adoption. We have had many amazing experiences as a family doing all of this. That is what we will continue to do.

Yes, life is hard sometimes. Sometimes it's easy. But when it is hard - that is when we learn. That is when we exercise our faith and continue to hope.

A line from a song about hope " And ears cannot hear it and eyes cannot see
But hearts are drawn near it if they choose to be..."

I choose to have hope. Today it is not hiding but it is close to my heart.