November is National Adoption Awareness Month and this is the last picture we have as a family of five before Angie left home to be an adult. Who would have thought that Christmas picture would be our last, but I am very glad we were diligent about taking them every year. Our adoption journey over the last ten years has definitely been a mix of blessings and challenges, and we say now looking back that we adopted with love blinders on. We felt called to give a sibling group a forever family that may not otherwise have that opportunity. I have learned that following in obedience on something we feel God calls us to do may or may not equal happiness. Happiness may be our plan. God's plan may be bigger than that. James 1:27 NIV says, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
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