I keep wishing that I could post photos of the boys... of our family.
You need to see how cute they are:) We are not allowed to put any pics
online until they are officially ours. Until then you will just have to
visit us!!!!
We have been blessed to have two beautiful boys in our home for 6 months now. I suppose every family experiences what we are experiencing in different ways. We are just finding our way through this new path. We love the laughs we have with the boys, the interesting answers we come up with to the difficult questions “D” (our 4 year old) asks, the dancing in the family room (and laughing at Chris’ moves that he is teaching D), the belly laugh that we love to hear from “T” (our 7 month old), the newness of the Christmas season through their young eyes. They are fun, inquisitive, lovely boys. We have found the tough part comes when we are told that they have found a new family member that has expressed interest in having the kids live with them. Selfishly, sadness sets in... then the next week the family member declines... Joy fills our hearts. I know reunification with the biological family is the goal but my heart says different. The county has to keep looking for family members... nation-wide... and so we wait. So, we are asked a lot if we know if we get to adopt the boys and when it will happen and the truth is that we just don’t know. When I get anxious and want to know what the future holds, Chris reminds me that we are here to love them day by day and it is not our job to anticipate what will happen. This helps me focus on my calling to this ministry of giving my all to these kids, it helps me breathe again. Just as a wise friend told me,” Stay in today.” That is how I need to live each day... Stay in the moment, stay in today.
I wonder what it was like for the boy’s biological mom to have her children taken from her. Does her heart ache? Does she wonder? I pray for her that in this Christmas season she will know that her children are being loved and cared for and that Jesus loves and cares for her.
I can’t imagine what some parents go through. I stared at the TV as we learned that those little children were tragically murdered in their classroom... I have held mamas weeping as their babies die of Malaria or AIDS... I watched from afar as my good friends in Arkansas walked on a painful road after tragically losing their 10 year old daughter... my younger cousin lost two young daughters due to a genetic condition. My mind cannot wrap around this immeasurable pain. I wonder how their lives go on. Maybe they are all clinging to the hope that God has promised us... a hope that someday there will be no more pain, no more sorrow, no more children taken away... a hope that changes our hearts and sets us on a journey of being whole and loved by the Prince of Peace. That is our hope as we stay in today.
We love you, The Sahr family
We have been blessed to have two beautiful boys in our home for 6 months now. I suppose every family experiences what we are experiencing in different ways. We are just finding our way through this new path. We love the laughs we have with the boys, the interesting answers we come up with to the difficult questions “D” (our 4 year old) asks, the dancing in the family room (and laughing at Chris’ moves that he is teaching D), the belly laugh that we love to hear from “T” (our 7 month old), the newness of the Christmas season through their young eyes. They are fun, inquisitive, lovely boys. We have found the tough part comes when we are told that they have found a new family member that has expressed interest in having the kids live with them. Selfishly, sadness sets in... then the next week the family member declines... Joy fills our hearts. I know reunification with the biological family is the goal but my heart says different. The county has to keep looking for family members... nation-wide... and so we wait. So, we are asked a lot if we know if we get to adopt the boys and when it will happen and the truth is that we just don’t know. When I get anxious and want to know what the future holds, Chris reminds me that we are here to love them day by day and it is not our job to anticipate what will happen. This helps me focus on my calling to this ministry of giving my all to these kids, it helps me breathe again. Just as a wise friend told me,” Stay in today.” That is how I need to live each day... Stay in the moment, stay in today.
I wonder what it was like for the boy’s biological mom to have her children taken from her. Does her heart ache? Does she wonder? I pray for her that in this Christmas season she will know that her children are being loved and cared for and that Jesus loves and cares for her.
I can’t imagine what some parents go through. I stared at the TV as we learned that those little children were tragically murdered in their classroom... I have held mamas weeping as their babies die of Malaria or AIDS... I watched from afar as my good friends in Arkansas walked on a painful road after tragically losing their 10 year old daughter... my younger cousin lost two young daughters due to a genetic condition. My mind cannot wrap around this immeasurable pain. I wonder how their lives go on. Maybe they are all clinging to the hope that God has promised us... a hope that someday there will be no more pain, no more sorrow, no more children taken away... a hope that changes our hearts and sets us on a journey of being whole and loved by the Prince of Peace. That is our hope as we stay in today.
We love you, The Sahr family
