National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Awareness Month! 

Our girls' referral pictures and now!

November is a special month for us and our girls personally too.  Six years ago today, our Beilyn's birth family chose hope for their 2 month old daughter...leaving their blue baby at the gate of a hospital in Nanchang with hope that she would be found and receive the medical care she desperately needed to save her life. Alex and I talked this morning about how Moses' mother left her infant son in an attempt to save his life too, strategically placing him in a basket among the reeds to be found. Beilyn and I prayed for her birth family tonight...asking the Lord to give them peace that she was found, is safe and dearly loved. While we wish her story didn't begin with loss, we are thankful that through His sovereignty, we get the high calling of raising this fighter girl. God used Moses, a boy named by his adoptive mother, to save His people.  God is using Beilyn, a girl named by her adoptive mother, to change hearts too. Love wins!

Braver than most.

 November is also the month that we first learned about our Beilyn (on 11/11/13) and our BellaMei (on 11/14/17). Adoption is broken and sad but also beautiful and redemptive! It has completely changed our hearts!

 I love this project Brielle had to make for her class. Our family wouldn't be complete without one of those little hands in it! ♥