If you
have known me for any extended period of time, you would know that I love
children. I always have. I was the little girl who didn’t play with dolls, only
babies. You could find me next to any mom who recently had a baby at church.
Since I was a young girl, I knew that I wanted to be married and have a large
family.
3 years
ago Nathan and I were married. We wanted to start a family right away. Unfortunately,
we encountered many problems. And after many doctors visits I was diagnosed
with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). Right away, we started with fertility
medications. After discovering the medications were not working, we were faced
with the realization that having a baby of our own may not be possible.
This
awareness was devastating. My childhood
dream would not come true. After many months of struggling with jealousy and
anger (mostly on my part) God showed us that there is another way to accomplish
our dream. Part of our journey in accepting infertility was the
realization that what we wanted most was to have a family and be parents, not
simply pregnancy. God has showed us that adoption is the way to accomplish
this. - Meghan
I feel that God has placed me with the wife that he
intended me to have. God has given me the desire to expand my family with
children. After Meghan was diagnosed
with infertility, my heart was sad but mostly for her. I knew she has always
wanted to be a mother. After many long conversations and lots of prayers, God
showed us that adoption is how we will grow our family. I eagerly look forward
to the day that we get to bring our baby home and can’t wait to raise our baby
in a Godly home. -Nathan
Unfortunately
there are millions of kids in the United States alone whose parents are unable
or unwilling to provide a loving home for them. Adoption is so amazing because
it takes a misplaced life and places it in an environment to be loved. Families
were designed to be the safe environment for a child to grow up knowing they're
loved and cared for. It is such a wonderful opportunity to be able to extend
that to a child who is unable to experience it otherwise.
Adoption changes
a child's identity from left-behind, alone, abandoned, and unwanted to loved,
cared for, and part of a family. Regardless of what happened causing them to be
orphaned - whatever child God gives us will literally be chosen to be part of our
family. This is a crazy, awesome feeling - even as we've been adopted and
"reborn" into God's family - to offer that same invitation and love
to a child.
The
adoption process can be a very stressful time. We believe that God has shown us
the right adoption agency to begin this process with. We now need to begin to start
raising money to complete our goal of 25 thousand dollars to be able to bring
home our child. As we start on this
adoption process, we ask you to pray that God continues to show us his will and
we follow it eagerly in this journey. Also, we would like to ask you to pray
fully consider donating any amount of money to help bring our baby home. Please
follow our journey by visiting (http://meghanperez.blogspot.com).
-Meghan
and Nathan
