Here is day 1 of our adoption year and the start of the daily blogging. This is the day after we got back from our trip to the Philippines to get Rex. I'm starting the Adoption Year today because real life starts today, not during the trip. Although the trip was wonderful, and we met so many great people, and did many super things, and so many prayers were answered, it was not real life. Transition for our family--for an adoptive family--really starts back at home, doing everyday things. This is when the journey begins.
Sure, a lot's happened already and in some ways this has already felt like an epic quest, like "Lord of the Rings" or "The Neverending Story." I half expected to see Frodo or Atreyu on our trip. In the last two years since we started the adoption process, we heard the call to adopt, rose to the challenge, passed the test (the home study, medical exams, and other paperwork), were guided by wise elders (Carol, Beth and Kelli), traveled to a foreign land, flew on a big bird (named Delta), communicated in a strange tongue (Tagalog), participated in local rituals (eating tosino and riding on motorized tricycles), befriended by local inhabitants (Tita Pat and Arjun), encountered delays and setbacks (no, come next week instead), and even brought back the king (Rex means king), and all of it catalogued by a scribe (photographer Heidi Lewis). But in the end, this proved to be only the start of our adventure.
And it's at this beginning--at the start of our Adoption Year--that I make record in this blog. For real life starts now, in the everyday things. This is the adventure. Welcome to Adoption Year.
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About Me
- C.S. Heinz
- I'm the Director of Marketing for EnergyCAP, Inc., publisher of the best selling energy management software. I write on topics like prayer, discipleship, intimacy with God, family, and adoption. I like to buy books and sometimes I even read them.
Know Heinz family that as you go thru this next year (and beyond) that you are and will be in my continued prayers. As you welcome this new addition into your family, one who has only known one culture, one language, one lifestyle I pray for the grace of God to overflow in your home as Rex adjusts to a new home, a new lifestyle, a new language and a new family! I stand in awe and amazement to the Mighy One!! I consider this is a privilege to be a prayer partner with you as you all learn to adjust. Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace be to you all!! Love & Prayers,
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