As many of you know I have a 15 year old daughter who is a young woman after God's own heart. She walks with him like no other teenager or most adults that I know. If you can't find her around the house she is usually either studying for a test, sending and receiving messages from a couple of dear friends on facebook, or in her room reading her Bible. God has blessed me with some pretty amazing kids.
Sam met a young man last year through our church. He was traveling with a band that came to visit. He is a 16 year old young man that absolutely loves the Lord. The two of them have stayed in touch via facebook. He lives a few states away. He told Sam one day that he really felt as though God had put a number on his heart and he was going to work real hard and save the money to send us for the adoption. Sam received a letter in the mail this week with a check for $500.00. I know that God works through many people but watching him work through a teenager just absolutely warms my heart. I can not thank him enough for all of the hard work that he did to help give us a donation to bring our little one home. Now if that is not humbling I don't know what is.
I have another really cool story to share with you. We worked really hard to put a garage sale together in 9 days. Many of you know that we live in the middle of the woods and a garage sale sounds like a pretty bad idea. That is true unless it is God that that is leading it. We threw together a garage sale in 9 days. We held it last weekend at the same time that the Nature Center down the road had their Fall Festival. I had some pretty amazing friends come and help our family pull together one really miraculous sale. While my girlfriends and I were sitting and chatting we noticed a lady come in with her 2 year old child. He was just adorable and we all kind of initiated conversation with his momma. She walked around and then after a short time of looking grabbed a 25 cent dinosaur and came over to pay. She handed my friend a twenty. When my friend Jenny went to get her change she said "No please keep it." "See our little guy here is adopted and we were out driving and I saw your signs." "We felt we really needed to stop and do this". Then as fast as she walked up she exited. It was really moving to see God at work.
Our kids proved to be very hard workers the day of the sale. They stood on the corner flagging down cars with the signs. They brought us in so many people and we were so thankful to have them there. Our sale raised $500.45. Thank you to all of you that came and found treasures and helped us get a little closer to bringing our little one home.
The joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10
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