ADOPTION: YOU CAN DO IT! Blog Post #5 -Why I wrote this book

My desire to write this book (ADOPTION: YOU CAN DO IT! A Husband-Wife Date-Study for Successfully Raising Adopted Children in the Christian Home) was born out of the lack of support my husband and I experienced when we began our adoption journey nearly two decades ago. There were a number of resources on the ‘how to get started’ of adoption, but not much on the ‘when this happens’ in adoption. Further, those whom we considered part of our support net did not even know they should help us, nor how to help us. We couldn’t begin to explain the horrifying issues we faced with our sweet looking children. To the outside world, we looked like we had it all figured out, but we knew the inside of our home was a battleground, and we were often losing the war. With the Lord’s true grace, and our own true grit we somehow survived, learned along the way, and now my children – step, biological, and adopted are all thriving. If this book will help even one family have a smoother and faster journey to the ‘thriving’ stage post-adoption, then my efforts will have been worth it all. No book can tell you everything you need to know on a lifestyle topic. You need to be open to a lot of learning, researching, and then living it out. I pray this book will assist you in being more prepared as a couple for living as an adoptive family. I hope you will be challenged, edified, brought to your knees in prayer, then laugh-out-loud with each other from the sheer fun you can have together at the end of each Chapter/Date. If I could encourage you to become one thing right now, it would be that you become ‘teachable’. There is much to learn on this journey ‘to care for orphans in their distress’….