Our dreams

I had mentioned in an earlier post that Chad and I had been having the same dream about adopting and did not realize it.  I will share a little about that.  I (Kelly) had been having dreams that I was in an orphanage and would meet our child but could never see her face.  I had those dreams for years but knew Chad was not really on the same page about adoption for us so I didn't talk to him about the dreams.  I had begun to pray to God that if adoption was not something that was right for our family that he take it off my heart.  I just did not want to have the same feelings when it was too late in life to do anything about it.  I could not imagine there being a child that God had for us and never finding her.  I bought adoption up to Chad occasionally during our marriage but we always said we would pray about it and if it was what God had for us we would know. Some time ago I finally mentioned the dreams to Chad and as soon as I did his face got white and he got very quiet.  He told me a couple days later that he had been having the same dream but just could not figure out where he was and why he could not understand the language that he heard.  In his dreams he had been walking in a hallway and up a long staircase, but he could never get to the top.  Chad then began to wonder if God really was trying to show us something.  Then one Sunday we sat in Sunday School and our teacher gave us a lesson that was about following God's path and trimming everything else from our lives.  The teacher had brought in a peach tree branch for demonstration and is sure made in impact.  Chad felt as God had put this lesson in his life at this time to help show him what he had planned.  Later that day in church Chad had an overwhelming sense that God had a child he wanted us to go find. He pulled my into our wonderful pastors office and told me what God had been revealing to him and thus our journey began.  Fast forward several months.  While in the orphanage we were going to the room where we would spend our time playing with Josie and on our way we opened a door and there was that hallway from his dream with the long stairway that he could never get to the top of. Only this time he did reach the top, and I got to see our Daughters sweet face.  What a wonderful day that was!