#67: Unconventional but Perfect with Vanessa Sokic
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa aspired to be a singer, dancer and actress but God had better plans! She faithfully walked through 9 years of infertility trusting God had other things for her to do in the mean time. I personally wish I would have done more trusting and less freaking out when I was dealing with infertility myself! If you're in a place where you're considering adoption, you're going to be very encouraged to remember how well God builds families. If you're not, you're still going to love this story. Vanessa talks candidly about the various issues and joys that surround adopting an older child and how far her sweet daughter has come once she was provided a stable, loving home. What we chat about: walking through infertility WELL when God shifts gears on a career path adopting an older child resources for foster children Share the struggle! I want to hear YOUR thoughts on this episode! If you've been encouraged by the show, please share it with another mom. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Head to momstrugglingwell.com for entire show notes! Follow along: Instagram // Facebook Support us: Shop // Amazon
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| 0:00.0 | This is Emily Thomas and you am talking to my friend Vanessa of a blog called |
| 0:27.4 | Daily Delivered we didn't mean to talk about this for the whole time but we just |
| 0:32.3 | had this great conversation about her |
| 0:35.2 | adoption with her teenage daughter. It was an unconventional way that God built |
| 0:39.9 | her family but as you'll see throughout the interview, it was still perfect. |
| 0:44.8 | She also talked about what it was like to have to kind of a disrupted adoption that was heading |
| 0:51.1 | towards being finalized. |
| 0:53.1 | They also dealt with infertility for almost a decade. |
| 0:56.2 | We touch on what it was like when God told her very clearly |
| 0:59.5 | that it was time to put down this dream of an acting career that she had. We talk about some |
| 1:05.6 | resources for foster parents as well as how you could be a resource for a |
| 1:09.6 | foster parent if being a foster parent isn't something that you are called to. |
| 1:14.5 | There's a lot here and if adoption and fostering none of that's even of the slightest |
| 1:19.2 | bit of interest to you it'll give you at least if nothing else a great perspective for people who do |
| 1:24.2 | build their families in that way and if nothing else it's a really neat story of people |
| 1:28.8 | saying yes to God even when it certainly looks a little bit unorthodox. |
| 1:34.8 | Let's jump right in. |
| 1:36.4 | Hey Vanessa, welcome to show, how are you today? |
| 1:38.6 | I'm good, I made it through this day. |
| 1:42.2 | I know, isn't that? we should do a victory lap right now. |
| 1:45.2 | I know. |
| 1:46.2 | Although speaking of laps I have a fit bit and I was beating some frosting for cake and |
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