Our Blessings (Revealed)

Okay....some of the MAJOR blessings revealed. 

We have lots, way to many to list! Here are a few biggies that have come recently. 

1. Sky (my sis) celebrating 3 years and about 2 1/2 of those years of no cancer...she is a survivor. Sky has brain cancer...doing super duper well. She is my hero. This is her pic with my mom at a celebration lunch. Praise to the Lord.

2. While at this luncheon with my sis, my bro and sis in law came over to see our fam. Micah and the kids were outside swimming in the blow up pool. Paul and Ang stopped by after church...chatting and hanging out. As they were leaving they handed something to Micah. He looked, it was KEYS TO OUR NEW VAN!!!!!  Paul and Ang said they had really felt God leading them to give us the van. They prayed about it and said "yes."  See, there are several things that amaze me about this. Paul and Ang are awesome, incredibly awesome. They aren't millionares, however, so this is a big sacrifice for them. Their gift blew us away. We feel like it is just such a blessing because A. We really needed a new vehicle (it was going to be hard to fit baby number 3 in my 94 buick lesabre that has 160,000 miles on it and a broken seat belt in the back. B.This is such an investment on the part of Paul and Ang and there family and we feel it is just them joining us in our calling to adopt. Praise the Lord (x2)

Here's us with our new van....let me just say it is BY FAR the best vehicle I have ever owned. Hands down.

3. So, number three....It has been truly amazing to see how people that we love, our family, our friends, and people who we don't even know have given us gifts to help fund our adoption. Some have given $7, some $50, Some $184, Some $1000, and some even more, and any variation in between. 

A few weeks ago Micah got a call from someone on our church staff. He asked if I was around and to get me on the speaker phone because he had some news for us. When I got to the phone he announced that he had a blessing for us. Someone was (anonymously) wanting to give a LARGE amount for the remainder of the money needed for our referral. Amazing. We had been wondering how God was going to come through so quickly, since the time is approaching more quickly than expected. I was speechless. Amazed. AweStruck. God is so good. Immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine. 

This gift is in addition to another anonymous gift given right when we needed it several months back. Another anonymous donation that we desperately needed to do our homestudy and pay our formal application fee. 

These gifts are in addition to other gifts people who are precious to us have given over the last several months. It has been an amazing journey to see. When we started this process, we knew that WE were called to adopt. No doubt. But, to see OTHER people take on OUR CALLING as their own is really indescribable. To all of our blessings, those of you who are sacrificing for us and for our baby a world away, thank you. We love you. (you know who you are.wink.wink)

Word to anyone considering adoption or any other calling from God. I was nervous, REAL nervous about how "we" were going to fund this adoption. We started the process having no idea how it was going to happen. Now, knowing what I know, just a few months later I want to scream it from the mountaintops- What God calls you to do, HE will provide. No question. Please, take the first step. Do your part, work hard, and then turn it over. 

God is so good.