Adoption Journey Begins

Well for those who haven't heard, Steph and I just got accepted into American World Adoption Agency's Ethiopia adoption program. In the next year or two we will be bringing home our child from Ethiopia. It's crazy how things work out sometimes. Like, you have this plan for your life and then God just takes you a completely different way. Just like Proverbs 16:9 says "The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps." Steph and I had planned on having another "biological" child of our own and then talk about adoption. However, God had a different plan for our life and we are so excited.

We can't wait to obey God's command to care for orphans. It's so easy to just ignore the fact that there are millions upon millions of orphans in the world because they can't speak up for themselves. They can't get interviewed on TV and ask for someone to come help them. No, instead they are in orphanages crying out for help knowing that no one will answer their cry. They are being abused but no one cares because no one notices. In fact, countless orphans are kidnapped and sold into prostitution or slavery and no one notices because they have no one who cares.

More than the fact that we want to rescue a child from a life with no hope and no future, we want our adoption of this child to point him or her to the adoption that he can have into God's family. We can't wait to show them how "he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will." (Ephesians 1:4). We can't wait to share the love that God has for them that far surpasses any love than we could ever show them and how he made a sacrifice far greater than any time, money or effort that we can sacrifice and how He wants to rescue them from a far worse condition than being in an orphanage. Ultimately, we want to point this child to the God that he likely would not have heard about in an orphanage.

 Feel free to follow our blog (fitzadoption.blogspot.com). We are going to post where we are in the process, our thoughts and feelings as we go through this process, any fundraisers we have coming up, etc.