adoption heros

You know when you get a car you suddenly notice the car everywhere... it's not like it hasn't been there before.... it is just that you notice it now.

Since we have started the adoption process we have found out that so many of our friends are adopting too and have reconnected with many who have adopted. Here are a few blogs and heros in my eyes (that i know personally) that are teaching me and encouraging me along our adoption process.

I encourage you to check them out:

Friends that have adopted 4 precious children from Ethiopia in the last 2 years...

http://taylorfamilyadoption.wordpress.com/

A friend that just adopted from Ethiopia and is very honest and open about all the ups and downs of adoption....

http://thehambrickfamily.blogspot.com/

A friend that is our church's Adoption Gurus and the best people to go to for questions about anything having to do with adoption.....

http://ouradoptionblessings.blogspot.com/

A friend that is in the process like us...

http://forthesakeofone.blogspot.com/

and finally and one of the coolest stories...

Friends that just recently adopted from Ethiopia and now have just decided to follow God's leading to go and live there and rescue more children (below video is about the work they will be going to help)

http://wherearethelesters.com/Where_Are_The_Lesters/Melissas_Blog/Melissas_Blog.html

to see the powerful video explain what "drawn from the water" is about...

http://vimeo.com/4023493

my gift from God

(Jonathan and Lalitha)

The name Jonathan means "Gift from God" and my Jonathan certainly is that. I have never met someone that gets me like he does. God made us for each other and the longer we are married the more ways i see how good my Creator God is at matchmaking.

I remember when i first noticed him. He was speaking at a missions conference at our church and was praying with passion and tears for the people of Afghanistan. It was only a weeks after that did I realize that God had chose this Mighty Man of Valor for me... ohhh how blessed i am.

He is my confidant, my leader, my lover… he is endlessly patient with me and full of grace.

To have someone that really "gets you" is rare. I know he was made for me because no one else could deal with all my whimsical passion (or some may say “drama”). No one else gets how my heart aches for all the people in the world and feels the same way I do and though we are polar opposites in personality and such... we have in common what really matters in life. It is what drew us to each other..... Jesus and Jesus’ love for the world.

So…. Happy Birthday to my gift from God!!!

I made the below video when we had just been married 5 years…..(it has been 7 years now)

Jonathan….. I am glad you still belong to me!!! – always yours…

teaching your little one to value of the eternal

Here is a great inexpensive little book that will teach your children to value the eternal instead of the things that will pass away.

You are mine (balls and boxes) by Max Lucado

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21