Prince Charming Lives

Read a message from your host mom, Kim, yesterday.... Had she and the family sought after their momentary desire, ignoring His lead, you would never have come to the States.  Had the host families before them not listened for and obeyed His call, you AND two others wouldn't have found their homes.  Had we carried on with the path of adoption we thought was best for our family, we would have missed out on the great blessing of you!!  Although we're all SO short of God's glory, it's ironic how often we think we know better than The Maker of us.  Everything leading to this moment has been so perfectly orchestrated; it's rendered me speechless.  All I've been able to do is gush to our friends and family about God's amazing love for you, that He would chase after you like He is.

This whole journey is teaching me so much, experiencing our Father in Heaven this way.  He's saved me from Hell, healed Isaac in my womb, swept in and redeemed our shattered marriage AND your grandparents', but only now...from the outside looking in...have I been able to recognize Jesus as this very real, very tenacious "Knight in Shining Armor".

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment....He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross. 
-Colossians 1:15-22 (The Message)

Love,
Mom

Your First American Family