Grace for Unmet Expectations

I was sharing some struggles that I was having in a parenting aspect of my life (being an adoptive mom) with a friend the other day, and she simply asked me this……It has completely rocked my world and I thought I would share.

Have you talked with the Lord about any unmet expectations or unmet needs about your adoption….? Ummm…what? Did I have expectations that I THOUGHT were going to come along with adoption? Maybe I did have unspoken expectations that I thought things were going to be a certain way and they weren’t. Or maybe I wanted it to be like xyz and they are the opposite? It has truly changed the way that I have been thinking and relating to my struggle. I’m still wrestling with it!

How many of you have unspoken expectations? Those things that you expect from someone in your life, but that you don’t clearly communicate? And then, when what you expect doesn’t happen, you get angry or sad?