Referral announcements from fellow adoptive parents had begun hitting my e-mail group (APC - Adoptive Parents China) two days earlier. Based on the date that our paperwork was Logged-In at the CCAA this should be our month to receive our referral.
But we didn't get a call...
and we still didn't get a call...
and we STILL did not. get. a. call.
They obviously were NOT going to refer us a child.
EVER.
Or so I had convinced myself.
And then....Jas showed up at home.
During the middle of the day.
As glad as I was to see him...he should NOT have been home during the middle of the day.
And then I realized what was going on...
Our contact at our adoption agency had called him and told him to get home...so we could take "The Call" together.
I cried.
And I cried.
And cried some more.
And then Jill called us and we found out that the Lord (and the CCAA) had indeed seen fit to match us with a precious child...Cen Ye Gui...and she was waiting for us in Hengfeng, Jiangxi, China...
The notes I took from that conversationDelay after delay had caused our paperwork to be sent to China 5 months later than **I** had planned. (Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21) ...but it had arrived in China at just exactly the right moment to be matched with this precious child...
As I looked at her eyes in this last picture below - the eyes that are looking right back at you - I knew that our lives had just changed forever.
And for that we praise the Lord.
Beautiful!
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