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The Girl Defined Show

How Fear and Anxiety Almost Kept Me from Adopting my Boys

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Send a text Ep. 057 - Adoption had never been something I (Kristen) saw myself doing. I always imagined I'd have biological children. Little did I know that 10 years into my marriage, I'd only have three miscarriages, dozens of doctors visits, and an unexplained diagnosis of infertility to show for it. Although I felt lost and broken, God had a perfect plan. I'll be totally honest. The thought of adoption scared me. I was extremely fearful and often overcome with anxiety abo...

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Today on The Girl To Find Show, I'm going to be sharing a snippet from my own journey

0:04.3

where I was ridden with so much fear and anxiety around the topic of adoption that I almost

0:10.0

did not go down the path of pursuing adoption, which means I would not have my two precious

0:15.2

boys with me today. It is so hard for me to even imagine that, but not too long ago,

0:19.5

I was so fearful and anxious about the idea of adoption, all of the unknowns.

0:23.7

I was holding my life story with a clenched fist. I remember everything came to a head

0:27.8

one day when I was sitting in a restaurant with some of my sisters. I burst into tears after

0:31.8

one sister asked me a question that drilled down to the core of my heart and helped me see for the

0:36.4

first time how much fear and anxiety I had around pursuing adoption. God used that day to bring

0:43.2

so much freedom into my heart to open my eyes to see how I needed to surrender my life story

0:48.5

in deeper ways to his sovereign plan. If you have anything in your life right now that you're

0:52.9

feeling fearful or anxious about, I'm sure about stick with me sister because I guarantee you

0:57.9

are going to walk away from this conversation with so much hope.

1:03.7

Hey friend, it is Kristen Clark here and I'm so glad you're joining me for this conversation.

1:08.3

Like I said in the intro, I guarantee you're going to walk away with so much hope because we're

1:12.9

going to dig into how God's Word brings hope, brings clarity, brings purpose, rips away fear,

1:18.4

rips away anxiety as we turn to him as we trust him with every part of our story. That's been

1:24.0

true for my life. I've seen it time and time again and it is true for your life as well because

1:27.9

God's Word is true and timeless for every single one of us as we walk in his truth as we embrace

1:33.0

his ways. And so I am so glad you're joining me for this and I want you to know that everything

1:38.2

I'm going to be talking about today, everything I'm going to be sharing. This is very candid,

1:42.2

very unscripted and so just roll with it. It's going to be a fun conversation. I'm not exactly

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