Part 2......

So fast forward a bit, I came back from China (which rocked my world) and I moved to GA. Subsequently, I ended up marrying Michael. We had met in 1998 at my sister’s wedding and stayed in touch for all of those years across so many miles.

Through the process of our courtship, we went through some pretty intensive pre-marital counseling. When the discussion of children came up, I had brought up my desire and call to adopt. He was not all that open to the idea. I spent a great deal of time praying…. God reassured me that I needed to give Him time; he would work on Michael’s heart. On June 27, 2009 the Bowden Family was born.

About 16 months after we had been married, I had gone to a conference called Catalyst. It was a great two days on leadership, but something greater happened, once again adoption was confirmed. For a moment, I was the only one in an arena full of thousands. I went and gathered as much information from the adoption agencies that were there and came home. I placed all of the information on the table, gave them to Michael and said we will be adopting, I was just waiting for him to be ready.

Valentine’s day 2011, Michael had a felt box waiting for me, in it was a locket, inside the locket was a bible verse James 1:27- “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” He told me that he was ready to start the adoption process and confirmed that a little girl would be joining our family.

We spent the next few months praying, along with asking others to pray for us as we sought after where she was and what agency we were going to go through to get her. After an initial application, on Father’s Day we signed papers of commitment to move forward with the adoption. That is when we began to share the news with our friends and family.

We have set this blog up to let you know OUR journey, the ups and downs of adoption and all the in between until we bring our little girl home. We are so excited to be expanding our family in this way. We know she is out there and are very anxious to get her home.