I was delighted to read in the recent SU Newsletter that 2014 will be the year of focusing on families and the importance thereof.
We have only recent become a family unit ourselves - with the adoption of our baby girl, Grace Khethiwe McDowell. We tried for over 5 years to fall pregnant by means of all sorts of fertility treatments. God was with us throughout this process and helped us understand HIS will for us - which was very clearly adoption. We journalled the process in a blog http://meetingmolly.wordpress.com/ and have shared our story with so many infertile couples. The greatest and most powerful lesson I learnt personally through all the tears of infertility is that God doesn't make junk! He made me perfect, infertile but perfect, and loves me as I am. I am to give thanks for my "brokenness" because through this HIS will is done and he can use our infertility for his mighty purposes.
Adoption has been a blessed journey and has united our extended family in ways we never expected. Ephesians 1:5: “He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
Sian McDowell
Howick
Leading young people to know and walk with God
Adoption has been a blessed journey and has united our extended family in ways we never expected. Ephesians 1:5: “He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
Sian McDowell
Howick
Leading young people to know and walk with God
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