The desires of our hearts

Brandon, the kids and I, all went to an adoption seminar last night. It was great! It was basically an informational meeting about adoption but there were other families there that shared their stories of how they came to the decision to adopt, where they adopted from, and their experiences.

One of the dads shared that he and his wife were unable to have biological children but that God had not forsaken them, that He had given them the desires of their hearts, through adoption. This dad shared something that has stayed with me these past 24 hours and that is that God does indeed give us the desires of our hearts and, in fact, manifests those desires within us. How undeniably true this is! I have dreamt of our lives when our children are grown and gone and home from college and we're a bustling family, full of loud laughter and love. Even when I thought we were done having children after Madelyn and Nolan I couldn't help but thinking how fun it would be to have more children, to be bursting at the seams. Now I see this as reality and not just my dream.

God does give us the desires of our hearts and will point us in the direction He wants us to go, if we only stop and listen and then, obey.