Our adoption journey began in October 2007 when Randy and I started praying about the decision to grow our family through international adoption. We knew that God was calling us to this journey to adopt, but we didn't have a road map.
We started the adoption process with an agency that lead us along for quite some time, referring us to different children in a few different countries. After almost a year into the process we felt completely lost and began questioning God's call in our lives to adopt.
While in prayer early one November morning, I asked God, "If it is not your will for us to adopt, please release us from this desire. But if it is your will... Where in the WORLD is our child?"
While checking my email later that day, I came across a link to an international hosting program.
I called my husband immediately to see if he would be interested in hosting over Christmas.
He agreed that we should get more information, so I called the hosting program and was told that it was the FINAL day to sign up for the Christmas 2008 hosting program. We decided to give hosting a try and frantically faxed our homestudy and USCIS approval letter to the agency. Within the hour we received a phone call from the director of the program with information about a ten year old boy from Latvia.
Dzo came barreling through the crowd at the Bush Intercontinental Airport when I called out his name, searching for that little face of the boy whose picture had been on my refrigerator for a month. He ran to me and embraced me with such force that he almost knocked me over.
Little Dzo was so small for his age and had such a short haircut that I almost didn't recognize him as the same boy from the hosting picture. On the way home from the airport we knew he was ours, he was the little boy we had been waiting for, the one God had predestined to be in our family.
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