Looks Like Daddy

Sometimes I get wrapped up in my "prayer list" for God. I can find myself sitting there rambling off five hundred things that are my heart's desires. I am sure He sits there just laughing at me and my sometimes jaded faith, even in all the requests I may present, He is often up to something even better than I could dream.

When we began the adoption process, I prayed for so many things. Before we knew about D and his story I prayed for his birth mother, down to where she might be sleeping and what she might be eating, for her heart. I prayed for officials helping us in this process and ethics. I prayed for the health and well being of my son. I prayed for his life and the many years of it that were to come. For his salvation and that God would use his life for His glory.

One thing I never even thought to pray for were his physical features, I mean why would anyone? There is not a space on your adoption application to specify what smile you prefer after all, but boy did God have bigger plans than even I could have dreamed or prayed for.

Knowing we were adopting from Uganda, we never even dreamed our child would look like us, and honestly it never crossed our minds to even want that. We knew our child would would look different from us and that was okay. We knew we would likely get comments about it for the rest of our lives, and that was okay too.

It wasn't in the first pictures or even our first encounters with him that we noticed it. L and I both have fuller cheeks and we did notice that in the first photos we received of D, but chalked it up to us being silly.

Then a few days after being together we were at a park visiting with some Ugandans and they began to tell us L looked like he was from the same tribe as D. We laughed at the comment knowing their skin was obviously very different, but after closer looks we realized maybe it was true.

And what an immense blessing that is. My two boys do look alike and people comment on it all of the time. The have similar facial features and expressions...often an identical smile. Just the other day I was watching D from a few steps away play with some kids, and the look on his face was so L!

I LOVE IT. Sometimes when God puts us in families, biologically or through adoption, we might not look anything like our parents. But I am so glad that D resembles L. He is a RADTKE and I am so glad for this blessing. I am blessed with two good looking boys :)

Now I pray all these grand things for D's life and for God to use him for His glory...I cannot wait to see all He has planned that far surpasses what I could dream of myself!