Adoption Tunes Playlist: An "Adoption Awareness Month" Offering

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Adoption.  Its the hardest and most beautiful gift. So often during our processes, during our adoption trips, and during our first months home, our knees got weak, our hearts doubted, and we turned to music blasted loud, or pumped through ear buds on fretful walks, to have some truth and encouragement spoken into our anxious spirits. 

Sometimes we needed some tunes to connect us to the child we waited and longed for. 

Sometimes we were in awe of the gift God was giving us, of the work He was doing, and we just needed to celebrate it.

Because music speaks when our words fail.  It comforts, celebrates, worships, and connects.   

Jesus, friends who got it, families who served us, chocolate, wine and worship tunes.  That was our adoption tool kit. 

If you are in the thick of the process, travelling soon, or standing in a foreign land getting ready for a child to enter your world, I hope you'll take this as an offering.  If you know someone who is stuck, gripped by fear, or struggling in the trenches of adopting kids from hard places, I hope you'll share this list.  Truth put to music can make all the difference in a day, a decision, a situation, a life. 

Many thanks to the adoptive parents who shared their favorite songs, songs that carried them, or that carry them still through their own messy beautiful.  The adoption community is a crazy gift.

I hope this Spotify "Adoption Tunes" playlist will be a blessing wherever you are and whatever you face.

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During our processes, each child had a song that tugged at our hearts, spoke to our souls and seemed to connected us with our child. 

For Eli, Tracy Chapman's "The Promise". 

For Evie, and our own souls, terrified of her medical needs, "Oceans" by Hillsong United.

For Claire, our first step into adoption, it was the classic, "When Love Takes You In" by Steven Curtis Chapman. 

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Courage, dear hearts.   Enjoy the playlist that includes these songs and many others.