They say the journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step.
Well this is step 2 or 3 out of what could be a million steps. Our journey could take 6 months or it could take
6 years. I’m not sure what God has in
store for us. All I know is one thing:
We want to adopt a child
There, I made it cyberspace
official. In our hearts we long to bring an infant into
our home that would otherwise not have a home or worse yet, not have been born
at all. We know there are people
struggling out there with unexpected pregnancies. Our desire is to come along side one and
provide a home for their child—a child in the United States, perhaps of a
different race. Idealistic? Sure.
Possible? Absolutely!
We titled our blog “Piecing
together the Gosses” because in essence that’s what we are doing in the coming
months and years. In each post you’ll
see the progress we are making on our adoption fund through our puzzle. We purchased a puzzle with 500 pieces in it,
each piece representing another addition of money to our adoption fund. An average adoption ends up costing
$20,000-$30,000.
In addition to the picture on the
front of the puzzle a different picture will develop on the back side of the
puzzle. On each piece we plan to write
down where the money came from-from who, where or what. This gives our adoptive child a story. They will know what it took to bring them into
our family-all 500 pieces of the story.
When you think about it an
adoptive family is a lot like a puzzle.
Each person or piece comes from a different part in the box (in my case
Massachusetts, in Clint and MaeLynn’s cases Wisconsin) yet is made by the same
Creator. Each person or piece looks
slightly different and when all of the pieces come together they make a
beautiful picture.
We invite you to come on this journey with us as we piece together our family!
How you can help
- Pray for us
- Buy a puzzle piece, the price is up to you. If interested please email me at Elizabeth.gosse@gmail.com
- Make a delicious meal! Buy Wildtree products or host a Wildtree party. All of the money I make with Wildtree after taxes and supplies will go into our adoption fund. Go to www.mywildtree.com/lizgosse
Prayer points
- the biological parents of our child-for their health and wellbeing
- Our meeting at Pauquette’s adoption agency on November 21st: patience in waiting for it and guidance with how to proceeds
- Our finances: that we would be wise in our spending and that God would provide extra money for us to put away to pay for the adoption
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