You know that first time you feel God is leading you to do something but you have never blindly stepped out in faith before? That is the hardest! Then God shows you if you trust him He has it all worked out to the day and penny, and that is an amazing thing. It is still hard to take additional steps of faith but after seeing God provide for us once has made it much easier to do it again.
A few years ago we felt we needed to make a change. We didn't have daycare in out school district we were comfortable with but we could not afford for me not to work. My job was really great and I had been with the company since I was 19. I had always wished I could stay home with the kids, so we talked about the idea of me getting licensed to run and in-home daycare but didn't know how it would all work out. We prayed about it and I began the steps to become liscended. I figured it couldn't hurt to just to take these steps and if it didn't seem right I would not have to quit in the end.
I finished the process and we had been praying, but we didn't know how it it would all fall into place. To give up my well paying job we looked at the budget and set a figure we knew we needed me to make to get by. How was I going to get enough kids lined up to be able to quit my job and start the daycare on a set day without a financial gap. The only interest I had was for one full time baby.
We were sitting in church on Sunday morning and like often happens the pastor seemed to speak directly to us. So directly to us he said, "maybe you are thinking about quitting your job to start a new business" - what was that! Did he really just say that! Jeff and I both just looked at each other and really couldn't believe it. On the drive home Jeff said to me. Call the woman who is interested and if she is willing to commit we are going to trust this is Gods plan and he will provide the rest.
So with one deposit for a space in the daycare I set the start date for my daycare for the day this mom had to return to work from her maternity leave. I too my two weeks vacation we had planned and I was going to give my two weeks notice the day I returned.
What happened after that was only because of God. Little by little over that 2 weeks after I gave my notice I filled two more full time spots and then enough part time spots so that when school started just 3 weeks after the start date of the daycare I would be making the exact amount Jeff had said we needed for me to quit. Seriously the exact amount. Pretty amazing but it gets even more amazing. We were still a bit short that 3 weeks between that first day and the beginning of school when the before/after school kids would start but God had that all planned. The mother who was leaving her baby ask if her 4 year old son could come during that 3 weeks before the start of his fall preschool. So from day one we were making enough to make it work.
God certainly showed us that if we trusted him He would provide. Now we look back to 3 years ago and we feel God was already preparing for us to adopt. We saw Him provide once which help to take the huge step of adoption and it allowed me to be home. We feel so blessed that with all the challenges with attachment I will be able to be home with the baby and he will not need to be in a daycare during the day and away from one of us.
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