As long as I can remember, well actually when I was in 7th grade in 1992, adoption was placed on my heart.  I remember it very clearly, I was jumping on a trampoline at a friends house and his little 2 year old sister came running out just as precious as she could be yelling at her brothers and laughing.  She was a sweet little girl from India that their family had adopted about a year before.  Right then God planted a seed that would grow later on in my life.  After having our first son Jeremy (my husband) and I were so thrilled and blessed to be parents.  We loved being able to take care of and nurture our sweet little boy Jiles.  We knew one day that we would want more children because we loved our son so much.  When we decided to start trying God had a different plan for how to expand our family.  After 3 years of trying and one miscarriage, our plan and God's were not seeing eye to eye. I guess we were are hard headed or just not listening to  God's calling, but it took many tears, heartbreaks, negative pregnancy test, and hours in prayer for me to finally remember that sweet face of a 2 year old ,that coincidentally lives just down the road from us now and is in college, for that seed to start growing.  And it did very quickly. For me, I knew God's answer for our family but for my husband it took a few more months to hear God's calling.   We were all finally on the same page.  We (the Wyatt's and God) were starting the journey to Lennon.

 

After doing some research on countries and agencies and hours in prayer, we decided on June of 2008 that we would adopt from Korea and use Holt International and Mary Kendall for our home study.  The process went fairly quickly and we got a referral of a beautiful baby girl on May 5th 2009.  Her Korean name is Eun-hye which means "Grace". We will call her Lennon and keep her Korean name as well.  She came home to us on August 13th using the escort program and we picked her up anxiously from Nashville's airport.  We have been so blessed having Lennon in our lives.  She was sent to us as God's answer to our countless prayers.  God was always there and listening and answering but for so long he said "wait".  WAIT....how hard those 4 little letters can be.  But we "waited" and she is worth every tear, every moment of incompleteness, every worry, every pain, every bit of doubt is there ever going to happen because when I held her for the first time God had answered.  He always knew our daughter was coming home to me, to us, to our family to make us complete....and now she is finally forever home.

 

Always believing in Mark 11:24, Rhea Anne Wyatt