Follow The Joy

My husband and I have been on the adoption journey for about a year and a half. After no luck and a handful of failed adoptions, we decided to open our home to a foster-to-adopt placement. The green light to open the home happened this past Friday and there are placements that will be presented to us next week.

When the green light happened, I felt a burst of joy that I didn’t expect to. It was a sense that this is how it is to happen and how new life will be born into our family. I expected to feel more fear or trepidation because fostering is indeed quite daunting, but instead I felt joy and even some peace.

That told me this was the path we were to follow. Even when I had a sense in prayer that we were to go this route for quite some time, it didn’t become crystal clear til I felt the joy and knew this was what we had to do.

So my advice is to look for the joy and follow the joy. Joy is your guide in your journey to fruitfulness. Where your joy is, there also is your path. Because after all, isn’t that the end goal?