There was a time when we weren't sure Colson would EVER be ready to share the love in this house.
He likes being the center of attention (at home).
He has been known to show a fair amount of jealousy over us paying attention to any baby or younger child.
When he was much younger and I would ask if he ever wanted a brother or sister his response was, "No! Lily sister!" This is Lily:
But ALAS he seems ready!
He asks when we are going to get her. He talks about "when my sister is here..." He said, "Now she is feeling more and more like my sister."
First he had to work through some of his own questions and clarify some misunderstandings about his own adoption into this family. He processed more of his adoption, his feelings...we were able to clarify some things where he was confused. Then he had to process this idea of traveling across the ocean to the other side of the globe, to a foreign land with new language, new food, new customs. Watching a few great documentaries on Netflix, listening to our Mandarin CD and laughing at our lame attempts to learn it, reading memoirs from other families who adopted children with special needs from China were all things that aided in his ability to get excited about going to China and bringing home a sister!
I get it buddy...it's a process. The way God moves in hearts and draws strangers who have never met, together as family is miraculous. This is how my boy has gotten to this place of contentment in knowing he has a sibling on the way...PRAYER! Continuous requests to our Father to draw our hearts together. What a tremendous blessing it is to get to experience and be an active part in HIS miraculous work! How absolutely amazing it is to see God work in our son's heart like this!
Does that mean we think this adjustment will be a walk in the park for us? It's doubtful that it will be so easy. But we will push through the tough patches with expectancy that HE will be there with us along the way...once again working his miracles, answering our prayers, easing the hurts, healing the pain, helping Hannah through her grief, guiding our path, bringing our joy, and making us a FAMILY.
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."-Romans 15:13
