God has been all over this process. Even when we didn't know what he was doing he did.
I have to tell you about the amazing way God worked tonight. One of my bests and I went to a journaling class tonight. We had a great dinner together before hand, we caught up on the week and headed to the class. We were running a tad bit late, but no big deal. We were walking up and Loren realized she left her Bible in the car, normally these are all things that are not important...but tonight they are. We went back to the car and I moved it a little closer. When we got to the class it had already started there were ONLY TWO SEATS LEFT. So we took our seats upfront in the only seats left and listened to Kasey talk through all the fun journaling things! We were then free to be creative. We introduced ourselves to the ladies next to us and started working. We carried on a little chit chat throughout the night. This was not what God had planned for our night. Loren and I started talking about adoption stuff and our girls. We told Alison (the sweet woman sitting NEXT TO ME) that we were both adoption families. And she said she had just finalized her adoption. How cool. God put us all together to have a great conversation...nope that was not it. I asked if she had friends who had been through adoption of an older child like hers, she said yes. I mentioned how great it was for us to have Loren in the process and I asked if we could exchange emails. She said yes. I asked her to tell me again if they had adopted a boy or a girl? She said it was a girl, she told us her age and her birthday. GET YOUR TISSUES. I started tearing up, I asked her if she minded telling me her name. She said her daughter's name was Susan! Same name, same birthday, same child we had been matched with. They finalized their adoption July 15th! Remember this post? God sat me next to the mother of the little girl we prayed so hard for. God sat me next to the woman who's family we prayed so hard for. God sat me next to the one person I never in a million years thought I would be able to meet. God was able to show me tonight so many answered prayers. Alison and I were able to tell each other our sides of the process. So some skeptics out there might be saying so what, you both happened to be in the same place at the same time...you live in the same area. WRONG...she lives 45 mins away and just came in for the class tonight, because she is friends with Kasey the woman who owns the art studio. So tell me again how this is just all happen stance? I think not. This has GOD written all over it. So to all of you who prayed with us that Susan would be in a loving, christian home with wonderful parents....our prayers were answered. I hope that this is the start of a wonderful friendship for a family who we have been praying for a very long time!
God took two little girls out of hard circumstances and put them with the families they were supposed to be with. He has blessed two families and we are now connected forever!
