Comments for The Spirit of Adoption http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com Tracie Loux- Adoption Consultant Wed, 15 May 2013 23:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Congratulations Rick and Sylvia by Susie Weigel http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/congratulations-rick-and-sylvia/#comment-881 Wed, 15 May 2013 23:52:23 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1879#comment-881 Congratulations, Rick, Sylvia and family. I am so excited for you. We have a family in our church who adopted an African American girl, Olivia. If you go on our church website-Living Waters Church in Elk River MN you will see pics of her. She’s 3 now. The parents got that call, like you, and off they went to adopt her.

]]> Comment on Congratulations Rick and Sylvia by Irene Eggers http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/congratulations-rick-and-sylvia/#comment-880 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:52:21 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1879#comment-880 That beautiful baby is my newest grandchild, who joins Sylvia’s and Rick’s “bunch of kids”. I have many grandchildren, which makes me very wealthy. It’s wealth I hope will be in Heaven with me someday.

]]> Comment on Congratulations Rick and Sylvia by LaDonna Stip Lemmenes http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/congratulations-rick-and-sylvia/#comment-871 Mon, 13 May 2013 14:54:12 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1879#comment-871 Congratulations, Rick & Sylvia! I can’t wait to meet baby Shenoah! We just dedicated our adopted baby girl, Peyton, to the Lord on my very first Mother’s Day yesterday! God is so good!!!

In Christ,
LaDonna

]]> Comment on Congratulations John and Cindy by Esther http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/congratulations-john-and-cindy/#comment-860 Fri, 10 May 2013 14:01:11 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1871#comment-860 Prayers for endurance!!

]]> Comment on Congratulations John and Cindy by D http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/congratulations-john-and-cindy/#comment-859 Fri, 10 May 2013 00:12:54 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1871#comment-859 Congratulations Randy and Denise

]]> Comment on “Of My Own” by Sara Haggerty by Christy http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/of-my-own-by-sara-haggerty/#comment-844 Mon, 06 May 2013 02:03:46 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1854#comment-844 Beautifully written. Thank you!

]]> Comment on Asking for Money and Watching Him Provide, guest post by Hannah Davis by Amanda Smith http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/asking-for-money-and-watching-him-provide-guest-post-by-hannah-davis/#comment-824 Wed, 01 May 2013 19:20:51 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-824 WOW. The timing of this was so incredibly perfect it took my breath away. Me and my family are taking a huge step of faith in opening a Youth Ministry Outreach and we really thought the support would come but it just hasn’t. Yet. And this: “It can be easy to get bitter when they don’t “come through” and give the way you expected.When these thoughts dominate, it often means your faith for finances is placed in the wrong source. People cannot be the focus of your trust. Jesus is the one who provides and He’s the one who speaks to hearts”

Thank you so much for that. It went right to the core of my soul and reminded me that it is NOT man we are depending upon to see this mission become a reality but God. Always God. He is the one who called us to it and it IS the one who will see us through it. Amen.

Thank you for your obedience in writing this. It blessed me beyond measure today!

]]> Comment on “Of My Own” by Sara Haggerty by Dr. Joan C. Gordon http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/of-my-own-by-sara-haggerty/#comment-814 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:34:49 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1854#comment-814 We adopted our first two children (a girl and a boy) and then I gave birth to three girls. We have always been blessed by each of our children. They are all our own children. The trouble with using the term “biological children” is that all children are biological. Our first daughter and son were created by someone else’s biology. There are several ways to form a family. Adoption is similar to marriage … they are both legal arrangements. So there is little difference between coming into a family via marriage or by adoption. Being born into a family is another way to “arrive” in a family. Just like my husband and I selected each other, we in turn selected our first two children. Then we were additionally blessed to conceive. So we always told all of our children that we chose all of our children. We chose our first daughter, then we chose our first son, then we chose to become pregnant with our second daughter, and so on. They were all chosen and they are all biological. And they are all legally a member of this family. Thank you for a provocative essay.

]]> Comment on “Of My Own” by Sara Haggerty by barbara Mlambo http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/of-my-own-by-sara-haggerty/#comment-812 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:45:52 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1854#comment-812 I loved explaining to children that we are all made from different colours of clay from in that past of the earth, but earth all the same Fun project to have them go outside and see of they any clay close enough to ther skin! Not a bad idea for some adults either!!

]]> Comment on Parenting Your Children As You Take the Journey Called “Adoption” by MalcolmAndAmy http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/parenting-your-children-as-you-take-the-journey-called-adoption/#comment-811 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:47:26 +0000 http://thespiritofadoption.wordpress.com/?p=1847#comment-811 Reblogged this on Christian Adoption Consultants.

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