A Father's Love

I have to brag on my husband for a second...

He amazes me. He's pretty much my number one hero. He gives like no one I have ever known. He is an incredible father and husband. Growing up, I prayed for a man like him, but I didn't know if they really existed. They do!

He carried our family through some hard days in China. He led us with strength and we were able to follow. On days when I can't, he does. He always chooses what is right. He is all of the things I want to be, and I am so thankful that he points me in the ways I should go.


He wrote this in his phone two days after we got Sadie and has allowed me to share it with all of you.



A Father's Love

Paul wrote about Love in 2 Cor 2:4 this way, “For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.” That was how he described his love for the church in Corinth that was birthed through his teaching, sacrifice, and love.

Paul demonstrated our Heavenly Fathers love through his many sacrifices and his commitment to something bigger and greater than himself. For me during this season of my life I understand what Paul meant. His love was deep and wide, much like Christ’s love for all of us. As we have traveled around the world to adopt our sweet girl Sadie Wynn, I can relate in my own way.

We decided to trade in our old lifestyle for something new, something much more complicated, something that will stretch us in every way imaginable. I’ve questioned myself throughout this process on several occasions. Why would I do something so out of the ordinary, so different than I’ve ever imagined? The answer always leads me back to Christ.

Why did God send his son to this earth to do something extraordinary? Love! Love is always the answer. God so loved the world, US, that he gave His only son. God loved us. He used His son to demonstrate love in the most extraordinary of ways. Pure, unadulterated love.

As I look into my baby girl's beautiful Chinese eyes, I understand that love. I didn’t know her until I met her, we can’t easily communicate with one another, but I love her. I love her just like I love my biological children. I have compassion for her like I never imagined I could. I’d give up anything to protect her, care for her, and give her a chance to know my Lord and Savior.

Like Paul, I don’t write this so that anyone is sorrowful but to demonstrate God's love. God took two people and planted the craziest of ideas in them to travel around the world and make a little girl their own. Once I laid my eyes on her, I knew that His plan was much better than any plan I could have ever dreamt up. I also know that no matter how difficult this journey may be, His love will prevail.