Waiting on God's Timing to Adopt
He has made
everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet no one can fathom what God has
done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV)
I’m
a planner by nature. From the time I was in high school, I had the majority of
my life fairly well mapped out. I’d graduate, go to college, and meet the man I
was going to marry. We’d get married after graduation, work for a few years,
and then start our family of no fewer than four children, all spaced two years
apart. I had a little wiggle room built in—I hadn’t declared the gender of the
kids, nor did I mind if they were two-and-a-half years apart. But the rest?
Well, that’s just the way it was going to go.
For
a while, things seemed to be going just as I imagined. I met a wonderful man in
college; we married after graduation, and started on our careers. And, after
being married for three years, we decided to get working on those kids, because
we had no desire to be older parents. Then the waiting began. What followed
were thirteen years of some of the worst spiritual pain I’ve ever imagined as
we tried and failed to start a family. But God was doing a work in my heart
that has changed the way I live. He was driving home the message that He, and
He alone, is sovereign. And that it isn’t my time—or my plan—that matters, but
His.
My
husband and I have since adopted two amazing children. We’re older parents, but
in many ways I’m a better mom now than I think I would have been. And I have
seen firsthand how God makes everything beautiful in His time.
HOPE DEFERRED BY ELIZABETH MADDREY
Can
pursuit of a blessing become a curse?
June
and July and their husbands have spent the last year trying to start a family
and now they're desperate for answers. As one couple works with specialists to
see how medicine can help them conceive, the other must fight to save their
marriage.
Will
their deferred hope leave them heart sick, or start them on the path to the
fulfillment of their dreams?
ABOUT ELIZABETH MADDREY:
Elizabeth Maddrey began writing stories as soon as
she could form the letters properly and has never looked back. Though her
practical nature and love of math and organization steered her into computer
science for college and graduate school, she has always had one or more stories
in progress to occupy her free time. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth is a
voracious consumer of books and has mastered the art of reading while
undertaking just about any other activity. She loves to write about Christians
who struggle through their lives, dealing with sin and receiving God’s grace.
Elizabeth lives in the suburbs of Washington D.C.
with her husband and their two incredibly active little boys.
She invites you
to interact with her at her website
or
on Facebook
HOW TO CONNECT WITH ELIZABETH MADDREY:
Website:
http://www.ElizabethMaddrey.com
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Twitter:
@elizabethmaddre
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