Our Prayer Story of Being Matched
I had just arrived to back home from the US less than 24 hours before, and I was driving to the airport again. It was a puddle-jumper flight to see about an exciting work opportunity out east. As I sat in the taxi, jet lag was not helping me focus on the work questions I needed to think about. And then a night-time international phone call came. Our social worker. "There is a child available that seems to fit your profile." My heart starts racing as I hang up the phone. But just a few hours later before we could even look at his file, another family had taken him off the available list for consideration. One month later, another midnight phone call. The same child is back on the list. I journaled how our prayer for discernment went and I thought some of you might be encouraged to read it: We sought the Lord's guidance in prayer together today and if God wanted to bring to our minds a scripture or way of helping us k...