Amos Story

Adoption was something that was laid upon mine and Shaun's hearts shortly after Lillian was born. I actually credit Alli for opening my eyes to the need of foster children and orphans, and it just spiraled from there. But what was at first a feeling became a calling...a ministry within it's self. As Shaun and I continue to research adoption and pray over where God is leading us, we have asked each other a million different questions. Where will we adopt from? Will we adopt a special needs child? How will adoption affect our family? How will it affect our extended family? How will we afford the cost of an international or domestic adoption? When should we actually begin the paper work? The one question we have never needed to ask each other is- can we love the child God gives us through adoption, in the same way we love our biological children? There has never been any doubt that the endless love we feel for Lillian and John Whitten is the same love that is already growing in our hearts for the child God has for us through adoption. Two babies I carried in my tummy and one Shaun and I will carry in our hearts. 

I saw this video on another blog that I stalk and just had to share it. It's a song that a Father wrote for his son in Haiti...the bond is there.

"But, someone, please give me-who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew-give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?" -Ann Voskamp (One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are)