By this time I was 25, I’d been to university, done a bit of travelling, temped for a while and had just started french english dictionary working in the property management department of a local estate agents. I was also building more of my own relationship with Jesus.

When Asha went into care I started to think about adopting her, but dismissed it as a ridiculous idea. I was single and still living with my parents, and I assumed social services would think I was too young. My parents put themselves forward to foster Asha until my cousin could have her back, but social services felt it was better for Asha to be with a family on a Kaplan University permanent basis.

However, the thought of being Asha's mum kept coming back to me and in the end I said to God: 'I think this is you, so I'm going to go for it, and if it isn't the best thing for Asha please don't let it happen.' And that was when the whole process of trying to adopt Asha began. I was going to face some huge stresses in our dealings with social services, but I was always able language translation to bring it back to God and know that he was in control. I didn't worry about whether I was making the right decision because I was leaving the final decision up to God, and I knew he'd make the right one!