The beginning of something beautiful...

The little boy is napping peacefully, the pot roast is on for supper, and while I'm whipping around the house tidying and cleaning, I just felt led to stop what I was doing and blog about the things the Lord is doing in our family. MAYBE, just maybe, I might stay blogging longer than a month haha, we will see!

 Jake just returned from India, completely changed. I knew this was going to happen, call it a wife's intuition, but my heart was churning while he was away as well.  I think it was preparing for what was about to happen when he returned and what I intuitively knew it was going to involve.

 As a wife, to see this image and hear the countless stories of my husband's interaction with these adorable orphans, how could I not allow God to change me, my motives, and my actions just as much as my husband's experience in India changed him, his motives, and his actions?

This is Anon and Carti, two boys that completely stole my husband's heart in India.  Just hearing stories about them has caused me to fall in love with them!  wish they could have been my souvenir! Throughout their trip, Jake talked about me and Landry to Anon and Carti and showed them pictures of us.  Jake told me that the last day they spent at the orphanage, Anon came up to Jake and handed him 1 rupee and said, "This is all the money I have, can you please take it to Landry for me?" The fact that a little boy across the world was willing to give Landry all the money he had and hadn't even met him just makes my heart overflow.  My little boy was so loved by a child that has nothing, not even parents to love him.  Jake is going to have the rupee made into something special like a necklace so we can give it to Landry someday when he's old enough to understand.

On the drive back from Fredericksburg, Jake and I had a tender conversation about his experience and through that conversation we have decided that God has placed it in us to adopt. We can't impact the lives of every orphan in the world, but we can change the life of one or two. Many people will probably question this decision or might think it's quite bizarre considering we already have a child and he is quite young.  People can think what they want, but Jake and I have peace in our heart that we want a unique and beautiful family pieced together by the Lord!  We could be the most ragamuffin bunch of Edwards, but I'm totally ok with that!

We have been investigating and looking into many options already, both local and foreign.  I feel that eventually we will probably adopt both locally and internationally, we just are waiting for God to tell us which to do first! We are praying, waiting on the Lord to guide us, and learning about all the different agencies.  WOW there are a lot! It's overwhelming really, but I know that God will lead us to the right place and to the right child.  Please pray for us as we begin this journey that God would make clear to us where to begin.