I am Canadian, married to a Canadian whom I met in Texas 18 years ago.
We met Darren while doing missions with YWAM, in the inner cities of the USA and in countries abroad. This is where we fell in love with the idea of adoption.
Kylar (2001) was born after 3 hard years of infertility. It’s a miracle he survived to birth because his two siblings conceived after him, didn’t.
That is when adoption became more than an idea. It became a beautiful next stage in the life of our little family. When Kylar was 6 years old, Amara was born in the US (2008). We had come full circle. The dream started there, and it was completed there. I was honoured to watch Amara be birthed into this world, to watch her first moments being held by her lovely birth mother, and to weep for the loss and gains adoption brings.
Then lovely Amara turned one year old. It was evident even at that age, that she is a social person. She would weep when Kylar had a friend over to play. Cry at his bedroom door when he needed some alone time in his room… and I knew she needed a sister.
After some starts and stops, we finally received the referral of Giselle (2010) from Haiti! I travelled to love on this precious little one 3 times in 2011. In 2012 we waited anxiously for those emails encouraging us that the next step had been completed. Finally in early June, we found out that we passed the last step in Giselle’s adoption! Her passport was approved and printed on July 15th, her Canadian visa approved soon after. We travel to receive our daughter on August 1, 2012 – the 21 month labour finally over!! The trip of our dreams – travelling home with her in our arms, finally a reality.
“Pressing In” is a common theme in God’s conversation with me. It’s really about being present and allowing the emotions (be they happy or hard) to be fully developed in me. To allow the pain, the joy, the suffering, the ecstasy – all of it to grow me, to draw me closer to my Jesus. I love Him. I wish I loved Him better than I do, but He truly is my breath, my heart beat… my everything.
Hi friend, I had never read this before. I wondered what brought you to adopt. Pressing in, is a great title for your blog, a challenge and desire of mine. I love reading your blog. Praying for you and G today!! Wish us homeschoolers could hang out, we are all in need of some friend time
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Hello. I stumbled across your page and read a little about your story. It sounds very similar to mine and my husband’s. We went to Haiti in February to pick up our daughter Dieulane but did not end up bringing her home. We’ve been waiting ever since. I am suppose to be receiving an update any day. We are at the very end and have been for 5 months. I understand what you are going through. It is a very difficult and emotional process. I hope you reach the end soon. I hope we both do. God Bless.
Hi Laurel, thank you for your comment. That must have been heartbreaking to not have been able to bring Dieulane home! I hope and pray your journey as almost at the end.
Hello Denise–
We don’t know each other, but I guess we have the common YWAM thread. I recently became friends with Darren on facebook. . . .he and I were in SOE together at YWAM Tyler in 1992. Then today, I saw his post of your blog in my fb feed, and clicked on it and have been reading your posts and your story. I can’t even say specifically what touched me so much about your story . . . I’m not an adoptive mom, although the idea of adoption is so clearly beautiful and biblical and part of our own stories if we’re believers and have been grafted into His family. But I think it’s just the way you talked about Jesus . . . . like you were putting words to things from my own heart . . .and I felt freshly amazed by the fact that we have brothers and sisters–all of us adopted–all over this planet that we haven’t even met yet. Only God knows if you and I will ever meet in person in this life. . . . but if not, I look forward to getting to know you in heaven!
A sister who lives in Florida,
Christi
Good Morning! I was doing a Google search this morning on Amara and ended up here. I have a beautiful granddaughter named Amara who will be 9 next year. I hope your Amara will bring you as much joy as our Amara has brought us.
You have done a wonderful thing and I wish you much happiness in the adventure ahead of you. ~Grandma Kc