A sign

In Dec 2008, we had a Women's Christmas program at our Church in Austin.  After we enjoyed a wonderful meal served by the Men of our Church at beautifully decorated tables, we had a program.  I don't remember the title of that program but I do remember its impact on so many.  Before our Pastor's wife spoke, we did something call "cardboard testimonies".  This was mine.

The idea was to tell about the struggle you have been through or the cards you had been dealt.  But then, the testimony came when you flipped your sign to see what God had done to restore or produce in your life. Here was mine.

I have kept my sign.  It reminds me all the time of God's faithfulness.  It reminds me of those who prayed for me during this heartache of infertility and those still experiencing it.  It reminds me that, the back of my sign could still be blank or say something different.

I need a new sign now.

One that says....
"THOUGHT WE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD ADOPTION"

and then flip it to say...
"Praise God...Our Adoption is funded. He has provided ALL that we need!"

Every dollar has been given in love.  In sacrifice.  In overwhelming love.  In God's timing and in God's abundance. 

We have had trouble wrapping our heads around God's provision and the flipping of our sign to say...He is faithful to provide where He leads.  He most certainly is.  

And now, we wait.  We wait for His child for our family.  We wait for him to create a new sign in our life.  One of great sacrifice.  Of overwhelming love.  And in His timing and His abundance.

Thank you.