We live in a small town and I only know personally, one black family. I am sure there are other people out there, but I have not met them. Something interesting happened at church one day recently. I was walking to the back of the sanctuary and noticed this little girl I had not seen before. I saw her eyes. She has these large eyes with a pretty colour. This made me stop and talk to her mum. Normally, I don't just walk up to strangers and begin conversations, so this was unusual for me.
As we chatted, we got talking about our kids and how many we had, and our adoption came up. She was interested because it turned out she and her husband were about to begin an adoption from Zambia, Africa! What chance of that!!
Then this past Sunday we had a potluck at church, and we got to talking and we chatted tons about adoption. Today, she popped over with her little girls for a visit. Her little girl is used to boys so she was very comfortable playing with our two littlest.
What was so cool about all this was the fact that it doesn't seem likely that it was an 'accident' that I just happened to chat with the one family in our church who is about to adopt from the same continent as we are. They are hoping to adopt two little girls, also. They will all be in the same age range. They will have playmates that look just like them! That is *so* important to their feeling like they fit in!
It was really neat to be able to sit down and chat with someone face to face about adoption - the excitement, the ups and down, and homestudy etc - instead of just through the yahoo groups or blogs!
How good God is to line up a friend in the same situation as us!
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I TOTALLY know the feeling Justine!
A couple of months ago my husband was given a cadet to train for work. Of all the Mounties in all of the country, he ended up being asked to train an Ethiopian man who was the same age as us. He stayed with us at our house for two months until he found a place of his own. But just having him walk into our lives at the time he did was no accident and once we told him that we were adopting from Ethiopia, we all knew that we were meant to cross paths for a reason. Over the past few months he's become a very good friend of ours, and he has been able to give us insight about Ethiopia and our daughter that we may never have known otherwise! Just having him in our lives has made us feel so much closer to Zia - its hard to explain.
Such an amazing experience and I am glad to hear that you've experienced a similar connection with someone!
Justine it is I who am really blessed that you walked up and introduced yourself and mentioned your adoption! How amazing is God that one of the first few people I meet when we move here is a) an amazing christian and b) adopting from Africa-God is just so-well He is just so darn COOL! lol I suppose using that term makes me actually sound my age hehe. Anyway I totally loved coming over to your house yesterday and I hope we can have many more chats and enjoy eachothers company-and that our little girls will be best of friends! Blessings to you and yours! Thank you for blessing us!
I love how God puts the right people in our path...if only we listen to His voice urging us to make that connection! I'm glad you listened! :)
That is so cool! God never ceases to amaze me in the little things!
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