[Tunay4754]

I am realizing more every day how much I need to pray for my boys and the things they will grapple with as they get older.

My oldest son is being adopted from foster care and has some very unpleasant & unique aspects to his story. We have a previous relationship to his bio-family thru ministry and it will be an open adoption. We will need much wisdom about what things are age appropriate to talk with him about as he grows and how to help him struggle through his emotions about adoption and his birth family.

Our youngest son is adopted from Guatemala and will face a different set of challenges processing his thoughts and feelings about his adoption story. We do hope to search for and make contact with his birth family as well at some point. I imagine he will grapple with the issue of the justness of people living in poverty and his bio-family not being able to stay together due to poverty.

All this to say that more and more I realize what a monumental task we have ahead of us as we raise these (and hopefully more in the future) children and how much we need God's wisdom to guide us and give us discernment to know our kids and to help them as they grow in understanding and process their particular world view.

Tunay