Is adoption God's provision for infertility or is infertility God's provision for an orphan?

The title of this post is a question I saw on another blog and it really got me to thinking...

Is adoption God's provision for infertility or is infertility God's provision for an orphan?

I've know for many years that adoption would be in my future. My stepdad loves children so much that he used to joke about adopting a baby from Korea. I think that's where the seed was planted in me. It made me think about the motherless children of the world and how I couldn't imagine growing up with my mom and all the women in my life that have played that motherly row. They've encouraged me and helped me grow into the person I am today. Adoption was definitly a calling I felt.

Many have heard me say how I would love to give birth to a child, more so to have that experience of having a child grow within me and know that it was a little piece of me and my future spouse. After one, I planned or hoped to adopt as many children as I could afford. I partly think my heart has been so open to adoption is because I never knew whether or not being able to get pregnant would be an option for me. I battled endometriosis from the age of 18. Some women are lucky enough that with treatment it goes away. Me not so much. There are times in my life that I definitly think God is making me work really hard to prove my faitfulness. Sadly, I think some may have already turned away but not me, my stubborn streak is too wide, ha!

After going thru a total hysterectomy at 28 and single, I think that God definitly called me to mother the orphans. My heart is overjoyed at the thought of starting the adoption process. I've already got wheels turning in my head on how one day it will happen. I've got a yard sale for the spring in process to start my adoption fund. I don't want to pay for my baby each month. I want to know when he or she comes to their forever home then there will not be a burden of paying for them.

So in answer to "Is adoption God's provision for infertility or is infertility God's provision for an orphan?" I think that for me it's inferitilty is God's provision for an orphan. God didn't do this to hurt me or make me suffer. The world is what has made me suffer. The world is what has lead us to believe that if you can't birth children then you are destined to be an old maid. It's the world that has made people less thoughtful of those who are hurting during times of joy for others.

What do you think the answer would be?

Jordan

Patience means ...enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well! ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf