Prayer Anyone?

My heart is heavy tonight as I read my SISTER'S blog. If you look under "journals" on her site, you will have a chance to hear her heart and her need for prayer right now.

Infertility has been the ugly word that has plagued both my sister and I for most of our married lives since the idea of "hey - let's get pregnant and start having babies" idea popped into our little heads. A lot of our friends can get pregnant by looking at their husbands, a lot of them have gotten pregnant by "oops" accidents, and some have stated the words "I think we will get pregnant in October, because we've always wanted a summer baby."

Wow. Is that how the other half lives? :-)

Family planning has never been in our hands. If anyone has ever asked us the question "do you guys want more kids?" - our answer is most assuredly, "absolutely, but that would be up to God - not me."

Now, don't get me wrong. My sister and I have both been blessed through the gift of adoption in our children and you couldn't bribe either of us with all the chocolate in Belgium to trade these little peanuts from being a part of our world and families today, but the ache to further our family and to "complete" our family is sometimes more than we can handle on some days.

My sister has two beautiful sons (one through adoption and one through the ol' traditional way) and her desire has always been to have a daughter. China has been on her heart for awhile and because of that, they decided to apply to adopt a little girl from this country 2 years ago. The wait is continually growing (we're talking several more years) and her heart is hurting past the point of sadness. Her and her hubby are doing a "Daniel Fast" this week (if you don't know what it is, it is basically eating only the things that come from the ground, veggies, some fruits, beans, nuts, etc.) They are using this time to pray about their wait for their little girl and if they can hang on for the journey ahead. I am going to be fasting in some way this week to join her and ask God for a miracle.

I wanted to share her story to ask you, my dear blogosphere friends, to pray as well (no fasting required - unless you feel compelled).

Some days you need to be comforted. Some days you need to be carried. Can we, as women of faith, ask the Lord to carry her this week? Please feel free to leave a note on my blog for her since I know she will read them and be blessed by your words.

Friends are meant to sharpen each other and encourage each other through all of life's ups and downs and all the roads it leads us through. What a gift we have and a responsibility we can embrace as women to take this role seriously and take care of our girlfriends like they are our own family.

You all are the best. Thanks for reading.