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The Answer is Just Around the Corner
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it-but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis
We're going to do something we rarely do - we are going to share a personal story. Thirteen years ago this week we adopted our daughter Cori. Here is the story (that goes with the quote!) It's a little long but we'll shorten it as much as possible.
When we were first married we were both in our thirties. Soon after marrying we were told it was unlikely we would have children. Since we had wanted to both adopt and have biological children we quickly moved into the adoption world. If you ever adopted you know this can be a difficult world to navigate.
After applying several places and paying application fees etc.. we were feeling rather discouraged. (Ok - very discouraged) As we waited and wondered it seemed as if nothing was happening. At one time we watched a show where a couple had a baby and I (Sandy) started crying - "nothing is happening".
The Sunday before Memorial Day we went to church and someone handed us some Children's Church materials (we were children's ministers at the time) they had been given while visiting a church out of town. As it turned out the return name on the envelope was a women I had known 10 years before here in Jackson. She didn't recognize my married name. When I called her to thank her for the materials and to catch up with her I shared that fact we were trying to adopt. She told me about a home for unwed mothers she helped with in her town. Did I want the number? Truthfully, no I didn't. We had applied so many places, spent so much money and nothing was happening.
But - I took the number and called the next week. As it turned out they did not do things the 'normal' way with waiting lists etc.... Instead when they had a young lady who had decided to place her baby for adoption their board prayed and looked for the right family.
By the end of the conversation they told me there was a mother who was due in about 3 weeks. Did we want to be considered? YES. We sent in the paperwork and they said they would meet the following week.
Later they told us - as they were walking into the meeting one of the women read our letter and said "Charlie Sessums - I knew a Charlie Sessums years ago here in Baton Rouge." As it turns out, 10 years before, when Charlie was living in LA he had met this person through a mentor at his church.
Here it was 10 years down the road and someone I had known and someone Charlie had known (in another state) were both working with the same adoption lawyer and looking to see if we would be the right parents for this baby. While I was crying about nothing happening - things had actually been happening for 10 years - I just couldn't see them.
I learned that often the answer to our prayers and questions is just around the corner, just out of sight but there none the less.
Cori will be a teenager this week - still an amazing answer to prayer.
So, if you've read all this - thank you for letting me share our story. Now, if there is something that looks hopeless to you - remember, the answer could be around the next bend - don't give up!
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it-but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis
We're going to do something we rarely do - we are going to share a personal story. Thirteen years ago this week we adopted our daughter Cori. Here is the story (that goes with the quote!) It's a little long but we'll shorten it as much as possible.
When we were first married we were both in our thirties. Soon after marrying we were told it was unlikely we would have children. Since we had wanted to both adopt and have biological children we quickly moved into the adoption world. If you ever adopted you know this can be a difficult world to navigate.
After applying several places and paying application fees etc.. we were feeling rather discouraged. (Ok - very discouraged) As we waited and wondered it seemed as if nothing was happening. At one time we watched a show where a couple had a baby and I (Sandy) started crying - "nothing is happening".
The Sunday before Memorial Day we went to church and someone handed us some Children's Church materials (we were children's ministers at the time) they had been given while visiting a church out of town. As it turned out the return name on the envelope was a women I had known 10 years before here in Jackson. She didn't recognize my married name. When I called her to thank her for the materials and to catch up with her I shared that fact we were trying to adopt. She told me about a home for unwed mothers she helped with in her town. Did I want the number? Truthfully, no I didn't. We had applied so many places, spent so much money and nothing was happening.
But - I took the number and called the next week. As it turned out they did not do things the 'normal' way with waiting lists etc.... Instead when they had a young lady who had decided to place her baby for adoption their board prayed and looked for the right family.
By the end of the conversation they told me there was a mother who was due in about 3 weeks. Did we want to be considered? YES. We sent in the paperwork and they said they would meet the following week.
Later they told us - as they were walking into the meeting one of the women read our letter and said "Charlie Sessums - I knew a Charlie Sessums years ago here in Baton Rouge." As it turns out, 10 years before, when Charlie was living in LA he had met this person through a mentor at his church.
Here it was 10 years down the road and someone I had known and someone Charlie had known (in another state) were both working with the same adoption lawyer and looking to see if we would be the right parents for this baby. While I was crying about nothing happening - things had actually been happening for 10 years - I just couldn't see them.
I learned that often the answer to our prayers and questions is just around the corner, just out of sight but there none the less.
Cori will be a teenager this week - still an amazing answer to prayer.
So, if you've read all this - thank you for letting me share our story. Now, if there is something that looks hopeless to you - remember, the answer could be around the next bend - don't give up!
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