jenny8481
jenny8481
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Apr 29, 2013 (13 years) |
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Bio
Over 20 years ago now we were desperately wanting to start our family. We spend over 5 years with a fertility specialist only to watch several months go by with no answers. Then when we finally became pregnant we had our first miscarriage. What we didn’t know at the time was this was the first of many losses headed our way. After two more miscarriages and several other months go by we began to feel very hopeless. Our dream of becoming parents was starting to feel impossible. I think the hardest thing was that I knew God could heal me. I knew that He had the power to change our circumstances but He was choosing not to. I didn’t understand why. At least not until we went on our first mission trip to Haiti. It was there that God planted the desire to move us towards adoptions. At first, we believed it was international adoption and possible even Haiti that God was calling us to adopt from. When all possible doors began to close towards international adoption we moved to domestic adoption. We honestly had no idea that adoption could also bring heartache. Over a year later and after four adoption losses God finally brought us to our first daughter. Jayleena Grace was born on March 9, 2009. We had finally had our first answer to our prayers. Our first of many miracles. We knew that we wanted Jaylee to have a sibling. Knowing that the adoption process would probably take longer than a year, when she was 18 months old we decided to start the adoption process again. We were hoping that by the time Jaylee was three we would have another child. But God had a different plan for us. We were barely done with all the paperwork process when the agency called to tell us that we had been chosen by another birth mom. And on January 4, 2011, before Jaylee turned two, Briella Jennae was born. Our second miracle. Although we had thought about adopting other children we felt like our family was complete. Two beautiful girls were great and if we decided to adopt again it would not be for several years. But once again God had a different plan. This plan was probably the most shocking of all. After several years of fertility treatments, I had come to accept that caring a child was not what God had planned for my life. I really believed and was content with the fact that we were called to grow our family through adoption. I never imagined the plan that God had in store next. When Jaylee was 3 years old and Briella was 1 year old, I found out I was pregnant. We had not done any fertility treatment. We had long before decided that we would not do fertility treatment again. We were so excited. We couldn’t believe that this would ever happen. It wasn’t long before the reality set it that pregnancies don’t end well for us and fear began to consume us. I had very little faith that this pregnancy would be any different. Soon we started to see each month go by and the pregnancy was progressing great. The baby was growing and was healthy. It wasn’t without its obstacles. I had several small complications and eventually ended up on bed rest, but God was faithful all the way. He kept reminding us that He was in control and gave a peace beyond what we could have had on our own. On March 19, 2013, just a few weeks after Briella turned two, Malia Davynn was born. Our third miracle. During our journey, God has often brought me to a scripture in Ephesians 3. The whole Prayer for Ephesians is great but it’s the ending that stands out most to me in Ephesians 3:20&21 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” God certainly did more than we asked or imagined. We didn’t just get one miracle we got three. Honestly, there were many other miracles along the way. As for now, we like to think our family may be complete but who knows what God still has in store for us. We have definitely learned not to put any limits on what God can do. Our miracles were several years in the making. It took a lot of patience, endurance, and learning to trust, to make it to the end. God taught us so many lessons along the way. It is honestly one journey we would never change a thing about, including the difficult times. Without the journey we would not have our miracles!
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