Review of Children of Dreams by Lorilyn Roberts
Children of Dreams is a true story of a single woman's determination to fulfill her longing to become a mother and facing the numerous obstacles designed to destroy that dream.
Fortunately, God is on her side because she's going not going to get this done without Him.
The author painstakingly takes the reader through her sometimes painful, but ultimately triumphant journey of adopting her two daughters from the countries of Nepal and Vietnam. From a failed marriage, to financial issues, to her age (apparently being 39 instead of 40 could derail an adoption), the monstrous bureaucracies and outright corruption involved in international adoptions is a sometimes humorous, but mostly harrowing journey to motherhood. Fortunately, it is worth the trip.
Using the correlation of God adopting us into his family by the sacrifice of His Son, the author uses scripture to emphasis the painful changes necessary that the Lord had to make in her in order to be the mother she longed to be. This is a story of trusting God no matter how insurmountable the difficulties may seem. I warn you, you'll shed a tear or two along the way, but not all of them sad. I dare you not to cry when her daughter Manisha, who could speak no English at the time, told her adoptive mother "I love you" for the first time.
Go on, I dare you.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...
Fortunately, God is on her side because she's going not going to get this done without Him.
The author painstakingly takes the reader through her sometimes painful, but ultimately triumphant journey of adopting her two daughters from the countries of Nepal and Vietnam. From a failed marriage, to financial issues, to her age (apparently being 39 instead of 40 could derail an adoption), the monstrous bureaucracies and outright corruption involved in international adoptions is a sometimes humorous, but mostly harrowing journey to motherhood. Fortunately, it is worth the trip.
Using the correlation of God adopting us into his family by the sacrifice of His Son, the author uses scripture to emphasis the painful changes necessary that the Lord had to make in her in order to be the mother she longed to be. This is a story of trusting God no matter how insurmountable the difficulties may seem. I warn you, you'll shed a tear or two along the way, but not all of them sad. I dare you not to cry when her daughter Manisha, who could speak no English at the time, told her adoptive mother "I love you" for the first time.
Go on, I dare you.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...
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