Today is the first day of my life that I wake up and I am a mommy to a precious little girl.

The only thing that runs through my mind at this moment is the journey that brought us to this place and God’s Faithfulness every step of the way.

To me, these 56 stairs symbolize anyone’s journey through infertility.

Two years ago as we started trying to conceive, I stood on the bottom step.

Yesterday morning, I stood on the 55th step and that evening God brought me to the 56th step and delivered me from all the pain and sorrow into complete and utter joy.

It was all a matter of time – God’s Time and certainly not my time.

Today, the first day I stand on the mountaintop with God, is a day like no other. I am overwhelmed with the faithfulness of our God to carry us through all those steps that lead to a little miracle named Little Bug.

I wish I had time this very morning to sit here all day and tell the complete story of our adoption journey. But my baby girl is in the NICU and as soon as her Daddy wakes up, that is where we are headed.

For now, let me share this while I wait for Little Bug’s Daddy to wake up:

We told our family, our friends and the blogosphere about the miracle God was doing through giving us Little Bug by sharing this poem:

That was not the original poem. 

The original poem was written by me on January 10th, 2009, after Dave and I went to our friends’ house to discuss adoption for the first time. Dave and I both felt at that time that God was calling us to adopt at some point in this journey – we just didn’t know when.

That night we got home from our friends’ house around 10pm. I came to the computer and this poem popped into my head (keep in mind this was before we knew anything about Little Bug):

Our miracle has come!

Not in my womb, but in our hearts.

We are going to adopt!

Baby is on the way …

She will be here in the month of May!

Is that not incredible or what?

And really, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the miracles, big and small, that God has performed over these past 7 weeks.

To all my friends who are on the steps, still walking their journey, I say this: Persevere and press on, whether you are on step one or step 51. Our God is a faithful God and if you allow Him, He will bring you to the top and have something incredible waiting there for you. I guarantee you it will be something more than you can even imagine today.

- Elaine