Is adoption a fad?

The definition of fad:  a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.


While talking to someone a few weeks ago, she pointed out that adopting is a fad or a trend.  I could not help but be a little bit offended at how flippently she threw that word around.  Adoption is something that is so close to my heart and something that I take very seriously.  Gavin and I are working so hard to help make this happen.  I stay up at night aching over my children who I know are not being loved by a mom and a dad.  The fact that I can not take them all in breaks my heart.


It just knocks me off my feet when someone says that what we are doing is a fad, like wearing pencil skirts or bell bottoms. There are so many people adopting around the world who have a heart for what breaks God's heart.  They are working so hard and diligently, crying over lost referral, and slaving over paperwork.  They are having to leave their current children in the states while they travel to a foreign land to adopt their new family members.  They then have to leave their children in the foreign land until the country gives them the go ahead to come get them.  They are waiting months or even years to see their children faces for the first time.  This is a very exiting process but also very painful.  I really doubt they are just doing it to be a part of the trendy group. I for one hope it is not just a fad.  I hope that the passion for adoption never dies out.  I hope that peoples eyes are opened to the need of the orphan, widow, and stranger and that God moves them to do miraculous things.

Anyways, we are still moving along slowly but surely.  We are currently waiting for our home study to come back from the courts.  When we get that back we will be able to file to our I-600a with immigration and then send our dossier!  It all seems so close yet so far away!