Thankful

Thanksgiving has come and gone.  We are eating leftovers and feeling glutenous.  The fall decorations are gone and now we have moved onto Christmas.  Before we move onto the next holiday, let me briefly tell you what I am thankful for.

I am thankful for a wife who had the courage to mention adoption even when I said I done.  I am thankful that I had the courage to listen to the voice of God, telling me that I could do this.  I am thankful that I have two beautiful older daughters who endured 2.5 years of adoption process.  I am thankful for family who stepped up and helped out while we were in the DRC.  I am thankful for a church that surrounded us in love and food while we were gone and when we returned.

I am thankful for mother who could not take care of her daughters, and who was willing to let strangers take her daughters to a foreign land.  I am thankful for two little girls who lovingly look up and call us mommy and daddy.  I am thankful that we have truly become a family.

Thank you God for allowing this to happen in our lives.