God Equips Who He Calls

I am a firm believer that God doesn't necessarily call those who are already equipped with all the skills, finances, etc. needed, but He will always equip those He calls.  If those the world saw as equipped were always the ones to build great things, go and seek disciples on the other side of the world, or enter into the tremendously expensive process of adoption why would the world have any reason to give God glory?  It would be too practical and too predictable.  But when God does great things with someone so small who the world would never expect to accomplish a given task, that's where the greatness of God is glorified.  What does this have to do with our adoption?  We were/are that couple that in no way was equipped to tackle the daunting financials of an adoption.  When we started the process Ryan was in seminary working on his masters and I was about to begin my 3rd year of teaching; we had a pathetic $1000-2000 in savings.   Today God has provided us with enough funds to have met our goal of $24,000.  We are amazed at God's provision and know without a shadow of a doubt the God LOVES THE ORPHAN!

How did all this come about?  Did a check just show up in our mail box for $22,000 one day?  Definitely not.  But, to us it has felt just like that.  When we needed money we had it.  We never had to put any step of our adoption on hold because of money.  God has placed people, businesses, organizations, fundraising opportunities, grants, friends, and family (biological and church family) in our life that He has used to provide us with these funds.  So many people are a part of our adoption process and we can't wait to show our child how many people loved and cared about him/her and wanted to be a part of our family's formation.

I am truly overwhelmed with joy knowing that we have all the finances we need to complete our adoption.  At the same time I am overcome with a deep longing, knowing that our child is somewhere in Ghana waiting for us.  We haven't received a referral yet and are waiting patiently (most days...let's just keep it real...some days I'm not patient at all).  I know that my Heavenly Father has everything planned out perfectly and I have to hold on tightly to that.  He is watching over our child and loves that child more than anyone ever could.

Please pray for our adoption process to speed up and for the Lord to guard our hearts and protect our emotions during all of it.  We are so thankful to have a network of prayer warriors behind us.

~Sarah
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."  John 14:18