Today I am pleased to bring you our first guest post. This post is from Kelly Rumbaugh of LadybugsNLove!

I have been part of the adoption community since 2004 and I have been blessed by the “family” I have come to know. These are women and men who support and encourage one another through the highs and lows of adoption and parenting. We suffer together and we celebrate together.  We pray for one another and praise God with each other.  It is a bond akin to any familial relationship I have.

Where there is a question, someone has an answer.  When there is a loss, we all suffer and pray.  When there is joy, there is dancing and praising.  I have adoption friends who have given me encouragement, prayer support, and large sums of money.  I may never meet them this side of heaven; but, we are bound by our children and our passion.

Seven years ago, my life was very narrow with only small concern for anything outside my “box”. I knew Christ and I listened to my pastor’s message every Sunday.  I gave to the church and expected little in the form of blessings.  Chug chug— a little choo choo on a circular track. Day in and day out….monotony. No devotion or passion for anything other than routine.

Why is it that most people in the world are okay with a routine mundane life?

God moved my husband and I to a new level.  Our train track is on a mountainous journey with dangerous curves and hills we have to chant— “I think I can”— to get up and over.  This is a wonderful life driven by the deep soulful eyes we see on the children who have never heard a goodnight story or been lovingly tucked into bed at night. Children who do not have their basic needs met and are scarred from neglect.  Children who come to a place in life where they do not know how to love because they have never known love.

Children suffering.  This is NEVER going to be okay.

Today.  Right now. Join us to make a difference for the child who does not know hope or joy. Make a commitment to support someone who is in the adoption process and pray for them or give to them financially.  Support them by buying or promoting what they are selling to help raise funds. God calls us to help and we need to be obedient to the calling.

If you are adopting, then I praise God for your obedience.  You have opened that circular train track and gone off the methodical routine course.  You can expect to pass through low valleys and have trouble reaching the top of the mountains. Your adoption family will be cheering you on and  I can assure you though that God has a rich blessing for you at the last stop on the tracks.

Kelly Rumbaugh, adoptive mom and child advocate.
Ladybugs N Love
www.ladybugsnlove.com
“connecting families an ocean apart”

Kelly is a Christian Mother of 8….She and her husband have children ranging in age from 6 – 23 with a 4 and 6 yr old on the way( not in the picture “YET”).
Special needs including profoundly deaf,spina bifida, club foot, extra toes/fingers,anal atresia ,hypospadius,severe heart disease arthrogryposis, microtia atresia,cleft hand,hydrocephalus,and she is adding two boys with SB/hydrocephalus/paralysis and down syndrome.Kelly could use our prayers in getting her two new children home and hearing God to start a healing home in a SWI wing for heart children in China. You can find her writings at  www.mommymomentsandgodwinks.blogspot.com