God Is in the Details

Today I read the adoption homecoming story of a 12-year old girl on a blog that I visit frequently. Her adoptive family is a very special one, consisting of thirteen children adopted both domestically through foster care and internationally from Liberia. In my opinion, it is an extra-special family because they have chosen to adopt those children who truly need it most and though this often makes for special challenges, they handle them with grace and God’s strength. They are a beautiful family.

What was so unique about her story was the way her adoption came about … a social worker who read the family’s blog actually approached them via e-mail to consider adopting this little girl. That is truly unheard of! Even more amazing is that this was not considered a state adoption but a domestic one with the financial implications that entails – but the agency chose to charge no fees and to pay for travel expenses. Again, this is unheard of! The homestudy fee was the next hurdle and a friend of the family volunteered to pay that amount in full. One piece after another fell into place, with the final amazing one being that this little girl was born on the exact day in the exact year that her new mother had miscarried a precious child almost thirteen years before.

God is amazing … and God is in the details. Praise the Lord!

I want to piggyback on that last statement by sharing this. As you know, our trip to Haiti had to be re-scheduled because of problems with our visas followed by Owen’s unexpected hospitalization. But even beyond that, we have seen other details that have reminded us again that God has His reasons and His plans are perfect. The family that was to host Isabel during our week in Haiti, ended up with their youngest daughter (Isabel’s classmate) home sick from school for that entire time. We experienced further sickness in our own family – after Owen, then me, and now Pedro. And yesterday we learned that the flight we would have taken to leave Haiti and return to Chile was cancelled due to Hurricane Gustav; in fact, the airport itself was closed in Port-Au-Prince.

We serve an all-knowing God, and that is a great comfort. We serve an all-wise God, and that is a great assurance. We serve an all-loving God, and that is a great blessing!