After a few years of trying to conceive a child of our own to no avail, I thought maybe we should start thinking about adoption. That was the seed God planted years ago but we figured we had plenty of time to decide. Steve said that he didn’t want the reason we adopted a child to be because we couldn’t conceive a biological child. He thought we should only do it if we both felt that’s what God wanted us to do. A few years later, God started whispering to us and it grew louder. I remember waking up very early a couple of weekends and and feeling like I just kept hearing a voice in my head saying “adoption”. After that happened a couple times, I asked Steve if he had thought more about it and he said that he actually did feel it tugging at his heart lately too and we started praying for guidance. That’s how we knew it’s was God’s desire for us to adopt – because he put the desire in both of our hearts at the same time.
I started slowly researching about the adoption process,
domestic vs international adoptions, foster to adopt, etc. It seemed overwhelming.
We took some time to process everything we learned. Finally we decided to check
out local adoption agencies about infant adoption. We met with the adoption
director at Lutheran Social Ministries in Burlington, NJ and felt so
comfortable with the people there. We chose to work with them because we felt
like it was the best fit.
