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06-20-2008, 05:58 PM
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Praying for our kids
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
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Our Family Journey: 8/99 Started ttc, 1/02 to 8/03 Fertility treatments, 11/04 Domestic hs finished/Licensed, 9/06 Began process for Guat adoption, 11/17/06 Foster son (fs) came to us at 5 mo old, 12/18/06 Our Guat son born, 02/26/07 DNA a match!, 05/03/07 Received PA notice, 07/11/07 OUT of PGN, 08/10/07 Embassy Appointment, 08/14/07 Returned home with our son, 2/08 fs bio-father signed surrenders, 5/08 fs bio-mother signed surrenders, 10/01/08 fs is finally adopted and is now our son!    
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06-21-2008, 08:38 PM
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Tunay, It sounds like the Lord has blessed you with some wonderful boys. May He give you the wisdom and guidance as you seek Him every step of the way raising your kids for kingdom purposes... He is faithful to answer prayer as you seek Him daily, do not grow weary in any way... He will see you through it all...
Phil. 4:13
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mama_again & lovin it!  Often times I sit back and simply take a deep breath as tears stream, and realize how blessed we are to have this precious child as our own.
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06-22-2008, 05:53 AM
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Mama,
He sure has! They are well worth the wait we had to start our family. It seems my whole life is about learning to trust Him and waiting on His timing for things to happen. Tunay
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Our Family Journey: 8/99 Started ttc, 1/02 to 8/03 Fertility treatments, 11/04 Domestic hs finished/Licensed, 9/06 Began process for Guat adoption, 11/17/06 Foster son (fs) came to us at 5 mo old, 12/18/06 Our Guat son born, 02/26/07 DNA a match!, 05/03/07 Received PA notice, 07/11/07 OUT of PGN, 08/10/07 Embassy Appointment, 08/14/07 Returned home with our son, 2/08 fs bio-father signed surrenders, 5/08 fs bio-mother signed surrenders, 10/01/08 fs is finally adopted and is now our son!
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06-23-2008, 07:21 AM
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Amen!!!
God is good, ALL THE TIME!!!!
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mama_again & lovin it! Often times I sit back and simply take a deep breath as tears stream, and realize how blessed we are to have this precious child as our own.
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