I've heard is said that forgetfulness is the great enemy of Christianity. This is my "stone of remembrance", my favorite locket that reminds me how God fought for us when we wanted a child so badly after 23 years of marriage. It is in Exodus 14:14 where Moses tells the worried Israelites that they need not worry. He tells them, despite all appearances, despite being surrounded by enemies, that God will fight for them. Not only do they NOT need to fight, what they need is to BE STILL. That was something I prayed daily-for God to fight for us-in the adoption process, knowing that for every baby available for adoption, there are 10 families waiting to adopt; and from the looks of it, all the other families were richer, healthier, and younger. It was a time of total dependance on God. It was a trying time, not wanting to get my hopes up-not
letting myself get my hopes up. There was no way to know if God had a child in our future, so to protect my heart, I would not allow myself to believe this great desire of my heart would come to fruition--until it did. I was sitting on the front porch one fine Spring day when, totally unexpectedly, a lawyer we had previously worked with (that adoption fell through), called and said he had made the assumption that we were still looking to adopt, and he had sent our profile to an agency in Seattle, where a woman was due to deliver a baby in two weeks, and she wanted to place the baby for adoption. The woman chose us as the family with whom she wanted to place her child, and what we needed to do was just BE STILL and wait for a call saying she'd delivered the baby, and then we'd get the first flight to Seattle to meet and care for the baby who would be coming home with us, the baby who would transform our little family of 2 into a little family of 3.
God fought for us! and we are so very thankful.
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