Here We Are...

Here we are...

3 days from leaving to go to Ch*na,

and I'm thinking back to a day in the month of February...the 27th to be exact...

I received an email from a friend, who, had set it in her heart to help me find my daughter...

I shared my heart with some very dear adoption friends that I felt God was calling us to China again.

This time for a little girl who was "older".

The search was on.

I had so many advocate friends who, so kindly, were sharing beautiful child after beautiful child.

One of them was Ann-Jolie...I just didn't know it until 2 weeks after I saw her face.

I remember Sindy sending me the email with this picture of a beautiful little girl.

Her face seemed so serious...in thought...

She was beautiful, but her "special need" scared me.  There was this long list of things that I could not understand...Medical terminology that seemed far too much for us to handle...I didn't even try at that time to get her file reviewed.

I moved on...

Two weeks later, in utter frustration and grief for turning precious face after precious face away, I was about to tell God, "No."

I couldn't take it...It was too hard, and quite honestly, I was tired from the emotional roller coaster that our family had been on that year previous.

I told the Lord that I would continue only if He revealed who my daughter was on this ONE particular day.

"I will find my daughter today, or I'm done."

And then God....

I had friends frantically searching for me...I looked at file after file...face after face...

And then I felt a prompting to "go recheck your email for files you've previously received."

No joke...That's what I "heard" to do...

So...I did...

And there she was.

Down 2 weeks into my inbox.

I had saved the email.

I requested the file...and got it almost immediately.

I sent it to the specialist to review the file, and instead of taking the usual 24-48 hours to review,

she called back 2 hours later.

Now...to know the miracle of this, one must understand the specialist that reviewed the file...

She has reviewed MANY files for me, and she is very straight forward and will give an honest, worst case scenario. I like that, even though it was hard to hear, many times, from her.

She knew what we could and could not handle as a family, as I had discussed it with her in detail.

She called me 2 hours later with a wonderful...glorious...positive report.

All of the "scary" things that were listed, were simply things that she was suffering with when she was found...

She was very sick...

But she had been "repaired"...Nursed/Doctored back to health...

And now she was waiting for a family...

"So, she's fine?"  I asked...

"Yes."

Wow...So, all of this time...Hiding underneath this "scary" list of medical jargon was a little girl who didn't have anything "scary" about her at all...Wow...

Now...The ultimate test...Would Scotty feel that she was "the one".

I called him...

Told him what the specialist said, and sent him her picture...

The rest is history!

Now...

Here.we.are!

3 days from going to China

6 days from meeting the beautiful little girl in that photo

6 days from meeting our daughter...

And I stand in awe of what God has done to bring us together.