For My Friends In Queue
There are many blogs dedicated to Guatemala Adoption and right now my heart goes out to them because I know exactly how they feel…I’m in the same boat. My husband and I made the decision to turn our hearts to domestic adoption (and wait and see how Guatemala turns out) but I know there are thousands (3,000) children waiting to come home to families right now and if President Oscar Berger has his way they will need to be home by December 31, 2007.
I’ve always been told that there is a reason we were chosen to parent and raise our first son, AJ, a special needs child from Russia. Many days it is beyond difficult but I know that we were chosen because we are the ones that can provide for him. I can be a stay at home mom. I can rush him to the doctor when he needs me to. I can endure sleepless nights (well, not really but I try). And we can, ultimately, afford his medical care. I can’t say that about other parents, whether they be adoptive or not. Someone chose us for a reason.
I know that there is a child out there for us and if we have to wait we will. If there is a reason, so be it. It may be hard to accept right now but I will get it in a year or two. Just give me time.
In the meantime…visit some of these other fantastic blogs and journey along with them as they encounter PGA, Pinks, and Bergers new laws. And, read this fantastic story from Debbie and Dave who, like us just switched to Domestic.
Deciding to have a baby is like planning a trip to Australia. You’ve heard it’s a wonderful place, you’ve read many guidebooks and feel certain you’re ready to go. Everyone you know has traveled there by plane. They say it can be a turbulent flight with occasional rough landings, but you can look forward to being pampered on the trip.
So you go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for a ticket to Australia. All around you excited people are boarding planes for Australia. It seems there is no seat for you, you’ll have to wait for the next flight. Impatient, but anticipating a wonderful trip, you wait… and wait… and wait.
Flights to Australia continue to come and go. People say silly things like, “Relax. You’ll get on a flight soon.” Other people actually get on a plane and then cancel their trip, to which you cry, “It’s not fair!”
After a long time the ticket agent tells you, “I’m sorry, we’re not going to be able to get you on a plane to Australia. Perhaps you should think about going by boat.”
“By BOAT!” you say. “Going by boat will take a very long time and it costs a great deal of money. I really had my heart set on going by plane.” So you go home and think about not going to Australia at all. You wonder if Australia will be as beautiful if you approach it by sea rather than air. But you have long dreamed of this wonderful place, and finally you decide to travel by boat.
It is a long trip, many months over many rough seas. No one pampers you. You wonder if you will ever see Australia. Meanwhile, your friends have flown back and forth to Australia two or three more times, marveling about each trip.
Then one glorious day, the boat docks in Australia. It is more exquisite than you ever imagined, and the beauty is magnified by your long days at sea. You have made many wonderful friends during your voyage, and you find yourself comparing stories with others who also traveled by sea rather than by air.
People continue to fly to Australia as often as they like, but you are able to travel only once, perhaps twice. Some say things like, “Oh be glad you didn’t fly. My flight was horrible; traveling by sea is so easy.”
You will always wonder what it would have been like to fly to Australia. Still, you know God blessed you with a special appreciation of Australia, and the beauty of Australia is not in the way you get there, but in the place itself.
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