FSA Meeting #3-Adoptive Couples

Last night was an amazing meeting. They all have been. I'm really sad that they will be over next week because it's been great to be surround by people who know exactly what you are going through and hear successes and misses in the process. These couples have become a comfort to me in my own process. There were three adoptive couples that discussed their stories working up to placement and bringing their babies home. I learn more and more everyday how beautiful the opportunity to adopt is. I learn everyday how much it is a divine process guided by Heavenly Father and that we can't rush his time line, but that our baby will come to us in whichever way and in whatever time that Heavenly Father sees as appropriate for us. I am also learning that adoption is a spiritual thing and not a temporal thing. I need to be able to open up my heart and listen to the spirit in everything I do and I will be guided along this path. As we progress and meet with friends each week, my testimony of eternal families is growing and I can't wait to be able to fully appreciate the role of parenthood. I feel grateful that I was faced with a trial like infertility at this time in my life because the paths to adoption are so wonderful, spiritual, and individual and if this is how Heavenly Father wants me to build a family, then I will. It isn't easy, it isn't always roses and peaches, there is lots of turmoil, uncertainty, jealousy, and sometimes even anger, but just like it is for natural births, there is joy-immense and utter joy!