Thursday, January 15, 2009

Adoption Update

This has been one of the longest, most amazing weeks I've had in quite a while. Everyday we've talked with our adoption attorney, the birth mother's counselor, and some of our closest family and friends, seeking guidance and prayer for what we should do. After praying and talking last night, we have decided to back away from the adoption. We have not been able to get much information at all about the birth parents and the medical history of this child. There is also another family that is very interested in this child and we feel very strongly that while we don't know everything about their situation, we still feel very strongly that we still have hope of getting pregnant on our own, this may be their only option. We did discuss with the counselor that if this family decides that this baby is not their baby, to contact us. We do not want this baby to go into the system, though the likelihood of her getting adopted is high. We do feel that if we get a call to come to the hospital, we will go, knowing full well it might as well be God calling for us to come get our firstborn.
It has been a difficult week of quickly trying to seek out God's will for this situation, and while we are still waiting on the final outcome, and haven't totally ruled out the adoption of this child, we feel that God has been leading us to this decision and feel at peace at letting this other family have the first choice for this baby.
Thank you for all of your prayers, I'm starting my treatments again this week, so hopefully there will be a baby Tindell on the horizon soon!

2 comments:

Andrea said...

Continued prayers for your situation and faithful belief that God is guiding you every step of the way!

Anonymous said...

i'm proud of you two. :) can't wait for the next miracle to come about! love you lots.