Jenny Marrs Shares Bittersweet Adoption Story: ‘God Redeems All Things’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Jenny Marrs recently posted a video on Instagram of her two daughters running around the kitchen when they were little. One of them wears pink boots, and the reason why is touching.
“Maybe someone else needed a reminder this morning also: God redeems all things. Even little pink boots. ?,” Marrs said on Friday.
The video is a repost from October 27, 2015.
“Nothing to see here,” Marrs quoted herself. “Just two little miracles chasing one another around the kitchen. One wearing the little pink boots that represented the painful passing of time during our adoption wait.”
She continued, “I bought the bright pink boots when we believed our one year old, Sylvie, was close to coming home. They were the first thing I purchased for her (once I finally believed the wait was near being over). As seasons passed, she outgrew most everything I had purchased during the years waiting. Relentlessly, I kept these boots. They symbolized all of the ‘firsts’ I had missed out on with my girl.”
In the video, Marrs’ toddler Charlotte wears the pink boots and happily runs after big sister Sylvie. Both of the girls are full of excitement and giggles.
“Today, I dug them out of a long ago stored box…and held my breath as I watched this little miracle unfold. Redemption. Right here in my very own kitchen,” Marrs concluded the post.
Sylvie may not have gotten to wear the boots, but Mars feels blessed that Charlotte could, and Sylvie was there to see her wear them.
HGTV reported that Marrs had become pregnant with Charlotte during Sylvie’s long adoption period.
“Along with four biological children, Dave and Jenny felt called to adoption, and in 2014, their daughter Sylvie became an official member of the Marrs family after a nearly two-year process. During that two-year wait, Jenny became pregnant with the family’s daughter Charlotte,” HGTV wrote.
Movieguide previously reported on Sylvie’s difficult adoption:
“Her adoption had been finalized. She had her U.S. passport. And then the country shut down adopted kids leaving, so she couldn’t get her exit permit,” Jenny explained. “We were contacting anyone we thought could help us. We had people writing letters. We met with every one of our congressmen and senators.”
Dave traveled to the Congo five times, each time returning alone.
“It was heart-wrenching,” he said of that time. “There was nothing we could do.”
During the long wait to bring Sylvie home, Jenny got pregnant again and gave birth to Charlotte, now 8.
“I wasn’t able to really rejoice in the amazing news because we were so overwhelmed with sorrow that we couldn’t get our daughter home,” Jenny said.
Marrs didn’t stay sorrowful for long. She got news eight weeks later that Sylvie could finally come home.
She recently posted an emotional photo of the day she and Dave got Sylvie.
She wrote, “I post this photo every year on this day to remember. I never want to forget the way the Lord fought on our behalf. The things He has in store for Sylvie must certainly leave the enemy shaking in fear or else he wouldn’t have worked so tirelessly to keep her from us.”
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