Hard Does Not Equal Bad

I am working through a Beth Moore bible study and in it she says, “hard does not equal bad.” Wouldn’t you know that was just what I needed to hear, because our adoption journey is getting hard…

We received an e-mail from our adoption agency on February 8^th… and it said that the agency is filling for bankruptcy. I know it sounds terrible, but we must remember that hard does not equal bad. Our adoption agency explained that over the last couple of years the adoption process has gotten more and more difficult. The more difficult the process becomes the longer it takes. The longer it takes fewer adoptions are able to be processed. After closing some facilities and laying off a third of their workforce, the adoption agency just didn’t have the resources to continue. We know the adoption agency did all they could and that our lost funds went to continue orphan care and to help bring other children home to their families. But for us it means that we are starting over. I just have to remind myself again and again that hard does not equal bad. We started the search for a new adoption agency and found one that we like. We filled out our pre-application with All God’s Children International on the 21^st of February. We hadn’t heard back, so we called them on the 28^th a week later. They had been very busy. We learned two very important things… One, they do not allow adoptions out of birth order (we must adopt a child younger than our son). Two, starting March 1^st (the next day) the agency would only be accepting new families wishing to adopt children from Ethiopia over the age of four. What this meant to us is that we had til midnight to fill out the application. We called just in the nick of time!