When I look at Elijah, it is hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that he is home! A year ago, we had NO clue what GOD had planned for this family! We knew we wanted a son from China, but the reality of it happening were slim. The money was not there. We knew we would eventually proceed with an adoption , but not for several years! Then there was the email to our coordinator Betty stating the fact that we still wanted to adopt a little boy. Knowing that we did not have the finances to fund an adoption, I still wonder why I even sent her that email! I know now that GOD had it all worked out, and HE was just waiting for me to trust and believe in HIM!! Oh I believed that ONE day we would go back, but not in 10 months!!!, Isn't it amazing what HE can do??
I started thinking about all of the GOD things that only HE could have orchestrated; like finding my son on the Shared list of children, on the 24th day of June. And then it occurred to me that I found Eli 7 months prior to the day we took our oath at the American Consulate in Guangzhou! Coincidence?? I think not! And then there is the fact that we found out on June 25th that he was still available and we sent in our Letter of Intent to adopt him! It was also the day one year prior that he had been abandoned! It was also our Olivia's 7th birthday!! Again...no coincidence! Now here is the one quirky thing that blows my mind, because there is no way I could of planned it!! It is truly a GOD thing! When we adopted Olivia, our Gotcha day was on the 6th, Adoption day on the 7th. Then we adopted Ellye, her Gotcha day was on the 8th, Adoption day on the 9th...and you guessed it....Eli's Gotcha Day was on the 10th, & Adoption day on the 11th! 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11!! Is that cool or what?? Coincidence or GOD thing?? Definitely a GOD thing!! I think GOD planned it like that because he knows that I am getting old and would forget!!! LOL
God's hands were definitely involved! I LOVE the "quirky" ways that GOD works when we let go and allow him to work in HIS marvelous and majestic ways!!
I started thinking about all of the GOD things that only HE could have orchestrated; like finding my son on the Shared list of children, on the 24th day of June. And then it occurred to me that I found Eli 7 months prior to the day we took our oath at the American Consulate in Guangzhou! Coincidence?? I think not! And then there is the fact that we found out on June 25th that he was still available and we sent in our Letter of Intent to adopt him! It was also the day one year prior that he had been abandoned! It was also our Olivia's 7th birthday!! Again...no coincidence! Now here is the one quirky thing that blows my mind, because there is no way I could of planned it!! It is truly a GOD thing! When we adopted Olivia, our Gotcha day was on the 6th, Adoption day on the 7th. Then we adopted Ellye, her Gotcha day was on the 8th, Adoption day on the 9th...and you guessed it....Eli's Gotcha Day was on the 10th, & Adoption day on the 11th! 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11!! Is that cool or what?? Coincidence or GOD thing?? Definitely a GOD thing!! I think GOD planned it like that because he knows that I am getting old and would forget!!! LOL
God's hands were definitely involved! I LOVE the "quirky" ways that GOD works when we let go and allow him to work in HIS marvelous and majestic ways!!
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