by Toni Acevedo, Holt International adoptive mom

My husband and I decided we wanted to adopt a child on September 15, 2005. Little did we know that our son had been born in Guatemala just 15 days earlier. We wouldn’t actually hear his name or see his face for 14 months. Two years and seven months later, we brought him home.

I decided to write this in hopes that we would encourage other families to have the faith to go the distance. Every child that comes into this world comes through labor. Waiting takes tremendous strength and patience. You experience a labor that is unexplainable, but not unlike childbirth as I imagine it. In a society where everything is quick and we are taught to go after whatever we want in life, there sits international adoption telling us: not in our time but in God’s time. Read the rest of this entry »