Unpacking the Heart

Matthew and I have been discussing starting a family for quite a while now.  We know that we want a house full of children but we also knew that it would be best to wait until we had finished our Master's degrees.  For the past few months we have felt God calling to us, individually at first, and then as a couple.  God has been speaking to us not only about having biological children, but He has also been preparing our hearts for adoption.  We have both been hearing God's call to adopt a child.  We tried to conveniently put off the call, but when God brought an adoption agent to our church with paperwork, we had to listen. We have explored several options and have decided that for now the best fit for us is to adopt domestically.  We know that God is most likely preparing us for an international adoption later in life, but for now, we are going to take the domestic route.  We put in our preliminary application...AND WE WERE ACCEPTED!!  We are to s...

Unpacking the Heart....where did that come from?  Ha!  The answer is simple.  My wonderful husband is a pastor who has a passion for teaching and for leadership.  Whenever someone answers a question in one of his classes, his response is usually the same..."Can you unpack that for me?"  To which we all now chuckle.  It is his attempt to get us to dig deeper and go further into the depths of our knowledge to explain why we think what we think or believe what we believe.  This blog is that space for me to go deeper.  I want to unpack my heart a little bit, share my thoughts, our journey, and a little of what we believe.