Praying for the Transition Home

While this step is still many months ahead of us, Ben and I have been praying for the transition of Baby B's arrival. Obviously, there will be a transition for us as parents. And of course, for Asher and Audrey as his siblings. But our real prayer lies with Baby B's transition. Recently, one of our shepherds shared this with us. The entire article can be seen here. It is about the parallel between the bonding that is crucial for an adopted child and his new family and the bonding that is required for a new Christian and his church family.

But I want to focus on this excerpt. She shares it from her daughter's blog who is about to adopt a child from overseas. She describes why the bonding process is so important.

“His whole world is about to be rocked!  He will be sent with people he doesn’t know, who smell, look and sound different from anyone else that he has ever seen.  He will be eating new foods, traveling outside his orphanage for what will probably be the very first time in his two and a half years, seeing tons of new sights, living in a hotel room for the first time (which he may think is our house), and even riding on an airplane half way across the world.  That is a lot for a little guy to take in and that’s just the changes that he’ll experience in China.  Once we get home there will be two new brothers and a new sister for him to get used to, another new place, another new bed, more new smells, more new foods. A lot of new! We expect him to experience grief over the loss of his nannies, friends, and familiar routine that he had in the orphanage.  We expect him to be overwhelmed.  But, we also know that God is a God of redemption and healing and that prayer can change much!  We will also try to do everything in our power to make this transition easier for him.” 

We are thankful that B is in the care of an amazing Christian woman who is fostering him in her home. He is being extremely well cared for and is being showed the love of our Father every single day. And while that is a huge blessing for him and for us as his future parents, we also realize he will miss her very much and leaving her care is bound to be hard. He is used to being the only child in a quiet, peaceful home and now he will have two siblings who never ever ever stop making noise. He is living in a time zone that is opposite of ours. When he is sleeping, we are awake and vice versa. He has been through so much in his short lifetime already. God is writing a beautiful story for him. Please help us continue to pray for what is still to come.