I shared with you all how Lucy was placed in a foster home for two nights with the Blake family. While we were in Abilene they invited us over to share a dinner with them. What a joy that was. CV and Shelly got to share their hearts with us and we got to share our lives with them. This family has two grown children (and two super cute Grandkids!) and lovingly welcomes littles into their Foster Home. The first five foster children they had in their home were boys and…they all attended their daughter's wedding a few years ago. I saw that picture on the coffee table in their home and thought it was familiar to me. YES. It was on the cover of our Agency's news letter. They showed us an extra room in their house which holds 8X10 photos of all their foster children, with the name they gave them (alphabetical, named after cities and counties in Texas) and a ceramic plaque with both their feet and hand print that CV had made for each of them. A large bulletin board is there as well, filled with cards, pictures and anything else they have received from their littles. We could not have asked for a better place for little Lucy. HIS handprints were all over this. Do you want to hear more?? Lucy was born on her Uncle Brian's birthday and was placed with us on Kiana the Great's Gotcha Day. She was due on the very same day as her big brother Elliott. Becca, our Social Worker from Christian Homes attends the very same church as our good friends, The Andrew's….and she works with Kristi every single Wednesday night at the mid-week service.
Friends, never doubt that Jesus has HIS hands in every.single.thing. you do. When we told Christian Homes that we would be willing to be placed with a baby that the Birth Mother wanted to see in person each year we stepped out in faith and trusted that Jesus had our best interest at heart. We knew that if it was supposed to happen our Jesus would work it all out, the money for visits, the timing everything. Lucy's whole adoption has been covered repeatedly in prayer. Many family and church members (they are also our family) prayed fervently for her little life. My husband wept tears in the rocking chair in her nursery. One of good friends had a prophetic dream about her life. This was meant to be. We have received an outpouring of funds to cover her adoption and feel so very blessed by all of it. Our Jesus has an incredible plan for our Lucy Faith. Sometimes all you need to do is jump and trust.
