I have finally calmed my shaking hands enough to type after a long spell of joyful tears! Today was our goal date for our Life International matching grant! We have thus far received $3,210 from or generous friends and family!!! Life International matched your gifts with $2,500!! This brings our current adoption funds total to $19,173! We only have $2,328 left to go! Life International also let us know that they will still add in any donations toward our adoption until we travel to pick Keziah up! The magnitude of the huge blessing didn't fully hit me until I received the list of contributions. The sacrifices that each family made to help us bring our baby girl home touched me so deeply that I wept for a full hour... (happy tears are so hard to explain to a 4 year old btw.) In hopes of preserving Torrey's man card I warned him to make sure he was alone at work when he opened the list. He too had to fight back tears. We have been so incredibly blessed by this whole experience.
Two weeks ago was the anniversary of our 2nd miscarriage and the last few weeks have been hard as I think of how old our little Anderson would be right now, who he would look like, what his personality would be.
But God is faithful and He can bring joy from sorrow. God has made it abundantly clear that He had a very different plan for our family. A plan of tremendous blessing that is only beginning. Last year I NEVER would have imagined that we would be where we are today with most of our adoption expenses paid for as we wait for our little Ethiopian Princess.
It is true that you cannot dream bigger than God!