"What if we had said no?
We could have.
We should have.
On paper it was a bad idea.
Many told us we shouldn’t do it.
Many said it wasn’t wise.
We already had 3 jewels.
We didn’t have the finances.
We didn’t have space in our house.
We were already so tired.
We didn’t plan on having more jewels.
We were already deep in trauma parenting.
Parenting was already so hard.
What would people think.
How would we do it.
This was what we considered. These were some of our obstacles when we were praying through adopting our Kody.
This is what we have considered and prayed through every time we’ve heard God call us to adopt. Usually the list of why not to do it is bigger than our reasons to do it.
But God. He still called us.
But God. We still said yes.
But God. He still wants to use us to take care of His precious jewels.
Right now there’s about 100,000 kids in the United States in foster care who ARE paper ready and waiting for a family. And so many more also waiting globally.
I’m so so thankful we said yes. We didn’t have to. We could have said no.
But God. He writes the best stories. This jewel is amazing and I love being his mom. As is each one of our jewels."
- Maria Hansen-Quine
