Another Surprise Gift

Well, God never ceases to amaze me. After our Dinner and Auction in November, there was one large item that did not sell. The donor took it home to sell privately with promise to donate the money from the sale to our baby fund. This past week, the sweet couple brought us the money - $120! Praise the Lord. God is doing this adoption fundraising for us. I am so thankful that HE is in control, especially since I am not (though I often think I should be!) We continue to look forward to the way the Lord is going to provide.

God's Amazing Gifts

Yesterday, something amazing happened. Actually, the events that led up to yesterday started several months ago...and even YEARS ago. Yesterday we received a check from the State of Florida Financial Office Department of Missing Money. Before coming to Virginia, and before going to Southeastern in NC, we lived in Florida and owned a house. Apparently, when we sold the house, there was some escrow money that wasn't captured in the ownership/sale of the house. Several weeks ago, we received a letter in the mail stating that the CFO of FL was trying to track us down because they had some "Missing Money" that belonged to us. I was skeptical of a scam, but after Eric researched it, we determined that this was legit! I am not sure why or how the money "went missing," but I do know that our God has used it as an encouragement that He is in control and will bring in the much needed funds for us to bring home baby 2. The check amount is $1671.75. Amazing. When my faith was weak, and I have given up, God worked in a way that I could never have predicted. Then he laid on the heart of another of his children to give a private donation of $50. Humbling. God brought in $1721.75 in a day. We did nothing. Only God can do that.

I am even more convinced that God is going to do this, bring in the funds for our adoption. It is the only way that it is going to happen. There is no way that we can come up with over $25,000 on our own. But my God owns the cattle on a thousand hill,s and he owns the hills they graze on. My God created the world, the universe, and all that is in them with a single word. God placed the dream of adoption into our hearts, and He will carry it through to fruition.  I Thessalonians 5:24 says, "He who calls you is faithful. He will do it." And Ephesians 3:20-21 sums it up very well, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." To God be the glory both for what he has done, and what he is going to do.