The Beginning.......

So, I know many of you may be confused right now.  After all, you’re reading the blog of the girl who said she would NEVER start a blog!  The same girl who leads a quiet life and prefers to keep it that way.  So what happened, you ask?  Well, the same thing that happened to the same allison who said that once she quit her job and came home to quietly mother a new baby girl, she would never do any public speaking again…..yet every Sunday hears the steel door close behind her and opens the Bible to teach from the book of Revelation to a precious group of women in cell 237 of the Muscogee County Prison.  I know some of you just choked on your diet coke right now.  I don’t even know what’s more surprising…..that allison is leading a Bible study, or that she’s doing it in prison!  What happened, you ask?  God happened.  God looked straight in my eye like He has many times before and chuckled and said, “Oh, you have a plan, do you?  Wait til you see what I have planned!”  What I’ve recently realized, is that when you walk with Jesus daily, and He shows Himself in big and little ways in your life, and everything – even the things you thought were the worst thing that could ever happen to you – point to the glory of our Father, at some point you just feel so full that you just want to shout it all from the rooftop!!  (“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:40.)  It feels so wrong to keep it to yourself, after all, it’s not just your story…..it’s God’s story!  So what do you do about it?  Well, if you’re living in the 21^st century…….you start a blog!

So that leads us to where we are now.  Kris and I have known for a very long time that God was leading us to adoption, but in our plan we were a few years older and more “seasoned” parents.  But when it seemed like it was time for Kate to have a sibling, we began praying more specifically about what God’s plan for that would look like.  As God began focusing our hearts toward “the fatherless,” we began to pray more fervently that God would break our hearts for the things that break His.  I can’t remember ever seeing a prayer answered so clearly and quickly as this one was for us.  I mean He broke us so quickly our necks are still sore from the whiplash!  God brought us to a point, through awareness about the number of orphans around the world and the conditions they are living in, and the blunt fact that they have no parents to love them and tell them how much Jesus loves them, that we could not sleep another night without doing something about it!  And once God lets you “know” something, you can’t “unknow” it.  So, that’s how it began, and now we find ourselves officially…….”IN PROCESS!!!”  J

-allison