On February 23rd, 2009, I posted what was the start of our journey toward adoption…at least I posted and shared publicly for the first time. “This is Hope…continued” was the first blog post introducing Aleks. A few days later on February 27th, 2009 I posted “Updates”, which made it more clear…we are walking a journey toward adopting Aleks.
Okay…I have been asked over and over to share more of the story of how Alex has come into our life. Here is part 2…
As things continued with Erick, doors continued to open, but I now realize that they were opening…to help open our hearts. But our direction started to change as the walls began to grow in November and December of 2008. This left us frustrated and asking why. It seemed like the more our hearts longed to help Erick the more challenges came along the way. Did you catch that? We longed to “Help” Erick…? It was clear that Erick had a mom and dad…with plenty of siblings as well. By mid December of 2008 Cindy turned to me and said, we are supposed to be and advocate for Erick…not adopt him. Wow…that was true, but through everything God had shown us His heart for us to adopt…and had led us to a place of openness to do that.
Between Christmas and new years of 2008 I heard God calling me into an area that once again, I had never been. (No…it wasn’t an audible voice or text message…but it was clear in my heart) Fasting? You never hear about Fasting in the modern day church, how was I supposed to know what that was all about? I spent a few days studying all I could find then set out on that journey with God. It was hard, and extremely rewarding. During that time I took four things to God and watched as God moved in three of those. The fourth was simply asking God what he wanted us to do about this incredibly strong desire for a son…conceive, adopt or just forget about it? During this time of focus I became extremely frustrated at what I interpreted as silence from God. It came to a point that Wednesday January 21st, I just unloaded my thoughts and feelings on God. At the end of that I conceded that His silence must be just telling me that we needed to focus on the two incredible girls we have…and just be content. That night I shared my heart with Cindy, and we were content.
The next morning, Thursday January 22nd, 2009, I got up and was heading to Orlando to visit a customer. As I was getting my things together to leave, I realized that I had left my computer open and on all night. As I sat down to log off and shut my computer down…there was one friend of mine on Facebook…Chris Crutchley. As I sat down, Chris updated his status…”Anyone interested in adoption?”. Wow! I called Cindy downstairs and showed her…I had to see if God was using Chris to speak to us. As I answered Chris we began to chat and he shared with me about Aleks. We knew that Chris and Jamie had hosted Aleks over the holidays…but we had never met him. Chatting just didn’t work so I called Chris as I drove to Florida. As we shared our story and hearts with each other…we realized that God had brought our paths together for just this…Aleksejs Jurcenko. I called Cindy and shared the story of what was happening. We took the weekend to pray and ask God if this was what He had been preparing us for. Our Father said Yes and gave us peace. It was with great excitement that we stepped out in faith on Monday January 26th to start gathering the paperwork we would need to host and adopt Aleks.
Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done here.
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