Tomorrow I’ll be waking up bright and early to do a live radio show with Karla Maria Williams of Family By Design.
It’s internet talk radio so listen in here. Past broadcasts of “All Things Adoption” are available too.
Hope you listen in. Just go HERE and click the “Listen Live On Air” button at the top of the page
Tuesday, July 19
9 am Eastern time
You know how six months after you’re married everyone starts asking, “So when are you having kids?”
Same type of thing happens once you adopt.
“So, are you going to adopt again?”
And quite honestly it seems like most families who adopt once, adopt again. And sometimes again, and again, and again.
So it’s a fair question.
And I always react with this really pronounced pause.
Then, “Well, we don’t currently have plans to.”
Because I’ve learned not to say “No” to God. That’s basically like telling an eight-year-old boy “I double-dog dare you”.
You know, because I told him we were not having more kids 6 years. Two was good.
And he laughed at me. Probably hysterically. In a loving sort of way, of course 🙂
So I will say that we currently do not have plans to adopt again. Mark and I are both passionate about orphans but are focused, mostly through our work with World Orphans, on the millions of kids who will never be adopted internationally. How we can we keep, or place, them in families? How can we show them the love of Christ?
And of course, there’s the book – my own little crusade to help as many OTHER people adopt as possible.
But, I won’t say never. I’m too smart for that.
But as someone who’s lifelong dream has been to write a book, being able to say that it was “an Amazon #1 Bestseller” is PRETTY darn cool!
About 4 hours after the Dave Ramsey broadcast, Adopt Without Debt hit #1 in the Adoption category. It went as high as #5 in the Family & Childhood Memoirs category as well.
What a wild ride!
Thanks for all the encouraging comments on the show. I pray that many more families will consider adoption when they realize it CAN be done without debt.