Road To Adoption

We’ve now officially been on the waitlist for two months. The hard part about adopting two kids is that we are given no estimate on the amount of time it will take to get a referral. It could come tomorrow… or it could be another six months. It’s hard to wait when you don’t know how long the wait will be. People ask me all the time if we’ve heard anything about the kids… I wish… honestly, we won’t hear anything at all until we are actually introduced to the two little ones who will be our children. So trust me people… when we hear anything we’ll tell everyone…

We got a check in the mail yesterday for $2,000. Friends are good… God is great!

“Adoption isn’t the best option, not even close…it’s the 5th best option”. I have been hearing this phrase more and more lately. No one should argue that adoption is the best option for kids. We desire familial love and care for every kid under the sun, whatever race, whatever religion, whatever continent…but we know that just isn’t always the case.
 
It’s hard living in this broken, busted up world. We live in the reality that God already reigns over all, but we drink equally of the reality that our world isn’t yet fully restored. I struggle daily between these two. I see dirty and wrong things being restored, but we also see beautiful things being tainted.
 
We press on in the reality of the “already, not yet.” 

So, for our kids… best option would be to stay with their birth family. Second best option would be to stay with relatives, third best option would be to stay in their country and their community, fourth best option would be to be adopted by an african american family somewhere, fifth best option is… us.

Sometimes the first four options don’t work out… for the ones that don’t get one through four… we’re happy to welcome you to the Briggs Family! And more than anything we want you to know that you were OUR first choice!

~Alan and Julie