I believe that we are supposed to adopt Ludmilla.вЂќ He explained that he had heard the ChapmansвЂ™ story and that it struck him that they werenвЂ™t all that different from us. Several days after hearing the вЂњFamilyLife TodayвЂќ broadcasts, Greg sat next to me and said, вЂњI have had a change of heart. Little did I know that He would prompt my husband to tune into вЂњFamilyLife Today.вЂќ Greg heard the interviews of Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman about adoption-their words changed our lives forever. When I actually left my desire to adopt in GodвЂ™s hands, I felt a great peace. Discerning GodвЂ™s priorities for our lives

ThatвЂ™s when I asked God to either change GregвЂ™s heart or mine.

And he thought that my desire to adopt was an unrealistic whim and that we should just concentrate on our family. He thought adopting was for exceptional people who were much better equipped than we were. Although there was something that called me to this 15-year-old girl, Greg felt differently. Then we met NatashaвЂ™s best friend from the same orphanвЂ™s home, Ludmilla. Although I never knew my grandmother Louella, her story touched something deep inside me.Дecades later, some of Greg and my friends adopted a Belarusian girl named Natasha. Later she gave those earrings to my mother, and when I was a little girl I would peer inside MotherвЂ™s dark green jewelry box and think about my grandmother wearing those earrings as a small child. When Louella first arrived at her new home, she was wearing beautiful gold-pierced earrings. My grandmother, Louella, had been adopted, so I knew that it was possible to love someone elseвЂ™s child just as much as if they had been born to you.

Since I was a teenager I believed that someday I would adopt. Would You put something in front of Greg that will help him see Your will concerning this?вЂќ I literally wept and prayed, вЂњGod, you either have to change my heart or my husbandвЂ™s heart. When our youngest child turned 18, my husband, Greg, thought that we could relax, enjoy our grandchildren, and just вЂњgrow old together.вЂќ But in my heart I knew that we werenвЂ™t complete вЂ¦ I wanted to adopt.

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