Meagan-Marie's story...
Have you ever felt like you were called to do something? Something big and life changing? For the better part of my life I have felt called to adopt internationally. I'm not quite sure when it first happened, but it has always seemed like the right path for me. I knew that I wanted to have 2-3 biological children, and then adopt. It is something that I would bring up from time to time to see if Jeremy's desires had changed to include adoption. For the longest time we did not agree on the desires of our hearts! So, I prayed alot and nagged encouraged Jeremy to do the same. My prayer was simply for whatever was God's will. I asked that He either change Jeremy's heart, or my own, but just to get us on the same page! Thankfully our prayers were answered in a pretty cool moment for Jeremy (he can tell you about that!), so NOW we start the adoption process!
Life Church encourages everyone to have a word of the year. I think it is no coincidence that the word I picked was "Brave". Starting this process is scary! So many unknowns lay ahead but we know that God has gone before us and He will perfect every imperfect step along the way.
Jeremy's story...
I was not called to adopt...at first. I always knew MM wanted to adopt, but quit frankly, I thought that burning desire would go away after we had our two beautiful girls. I was wrong, it did not go away! After having our two beautiful girls, the talk began from MM again about adopting. I still wasn't sure if I wanted to, or was even being led to (which I was ridiculous for even thinking that). MM would ask me if I had been praying about, and since you shouldn't lie, especially about praying, I admittedly said "No," but promised I would. I had been praying for God to change my heart about this if it was His will, because I refused to enter the adoption process half-hearted. After several weeks of prayer, I was driving one day and listening to the song "Yours" by Steven Curtis Chapman. I had heard this song at least 20-30 times before, but this time was different. The lyrics of this song are "Every street and London...and every child in Africa, they're all Yours!" At that moment, you would have thought that the roof was ripped off the top of my car, and God reached directly down and slapped me in the back of the head with His Holy hand. Tears of sadness, joy, and clarity were streaming down my face, and right then, my heart and mind would be changed forever!
