I want to jump back to our previous adoption for a moment. Amos and Irene were in the freezer as embryos for nearly 4 years before they were given to chance to wake up. They are not even 4 years old yet. If you add the time of the pregnancy, they have been awake just a bit longer than they were frozen. This truth hit me recently and really gave me perspective. Some days are really hard with twin 3 year olds. But a shift in perspective can really change my attitude.
This perspective has carried over to our next adoption as well. Roughly the time they were going into the freezer is when we really started to feel the tug towards adoption, it just took us that long to find the route God had called us to. They were there waiting. We now feel the same tug again. We have opened the door we feel called to but there is a lot of waiting in adoption. Remembering the perspective we have learned is key to tolerating the wait. We will continue to be confident that we will discover the next situation God has called us to adopt from.
