A Total God Story

Sorry I have been MIA for the past week or so...but many things have been going on around here--mostly this...the day after my last post, one of my dearest friends that recently began their domestic adoption journey, got the call that they had A DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!! See, the "fingerprint" process that is usually the first thing you do when you start to adopt, has been going through some changes...and without boring you with the ins and outs, in a nutshell, many families got caught up in this transition.... they tell you that getting your print clearances could take 8-12 weeks...that is why you generally do it first, so that you can be finish up your homestudy while you wait to get your fingerprint clearances....well, this family had gotten their prints done at the first of the year and it took around 5 months to get all of their stuff sorted out! That is an unbelievably long time for fingerprint clearances!!! Well, literally as they finished up all loose ends (like literally, the same day), they got a call from their agency saying that they had a baby girl....now, I said all of that to say this....

When you are going through an adoption and you hit a snag (or just a 'snag' in life in general)-it can feel like literally the end of the world-- sometimes you feel like it is the worst thing that could ever happen....you feel like you are trying to be obedient to God and you question yourself. You wonder how much longer it is going to be now that there has been a delay....if you can read this story and still question if God really sees all that goes on in your life and if He really cares....how in the world can you question Him??? Do you think it is just coincidental that this 5 month long fingerprint delay miraculously culminated with a brand new life???? You HAVE to know that God is in the timing...it is all in HIS time, even when to us it feels like it has all gone wrong!!!! When it feels like the delay has messed up all our plans...God had it in HIS plan all along...to give us more than our feeble minds could ever even dream up!! See, in their wildest dream, this family was thinking they might have a baby by the end of the year, but God gave them more than they had even dreamed of...Of course, I have given a pretty vague story and there is SO much more to this amazing story, but it is not my story to tell...just wanted to brag on my God a little:)....He's just tooo good!!