I just dare you. That is all I'm going to say about the article.
But I will say something about the author, Heidi Weimer (wehaveroom.org). I like to call her my 'inspiration' for us adopting three kids. Jason and I first read about the Weimers several years ago. Their story was called 3+3+3 because they had three biological kids and then adopted a sibling group of three from Ethiopia and then adopted another sibling group of three from Ethiopia. And they were just over 30 years old!! When I first read their story, I thought, "wow . . . unbelievable, but so cool." But I certainly wasn't signing up to adopt three kids at that point.
And in fact we never really set out to adopt three kids when this whole C-country adoption thing happened. God led us in that direction and we went. Sometime after we had started the process to adopt three kids, I stopped and remembered the Weimer's story. At that moment I realized that God had used them to prepare me for what we were doing. He used them to help me see adopting three kids maybe wasn't so unbelievable after all.
You know how God does that sometimes? You have no idea at the time that He is using something or someone to prepare you for the future, but you look back and realize He did. He is so good like that!
When we went to the Christian Alliance for Orphans conference this past May, I got to meet Heidi. It was one of the highlights of my time there. She is just a regular mom who is sold out for Jesus and she continues to inspire me.
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Any idea if they have some sort of Turkey connection? One of her children's names--Bereket--is the Turkish word for blessing.
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