The Journey Begins

So I thought I would start at the beginning.  By now the actual date has been forgotten, but Nikki and  I will both attest that is happened in early September 2011.  I read this book, very much against my will and with great pain.

By chapter 6 I had written all over the pages of this book arguing and criticizing the premise and conclusions of the author David Platt.  But then on a Thursday evening sitting on the couch next to Nikki I reached page 139 and read this.

When I read the last paragraph, "...It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms.  But once you do, everything changes." it was as if I had been transported off my couch, out of my home and across the ocean to that orphange in Kazakhstan.  What the author saw, I saw.  The deep emotions the author felt, I felt.  The conclusion he reached, I reached too.  So with this stirring in my soul, I turned and asked Nikki, "Could you ever picture yourself adopting a child internationally?"

With that question the Holy Spirit took hold of Nikki and I and Finley's Journey officially began.