Miracle #1

"December."

This was the word I had heard several Decembers before while driving in my Corolla in Green Bay, WI, praying.  The voice of God.  He had responded to my urgent plea to start a family with two messages.  "Everything will be okay" and "December".  I held hope in my heart year after year.  What did it mean?  We would conceive in December?  Bear a child in December?  Finally and IUI would work in December?  We would get word on an adoption in December?  Complete an adoption in December?  Several years had passed already and none of those had come to pass.  Each year as December neared my heart beat a little faster, anticipating how God's word would manifest itself to be true.

Now it was January again.  Another year until the next December and still no child.  Another 12 months to wait.  I envied Mother Mary.

It was the first week in January 2004 when I got a call from a birthmom.  It wasn't the first call I'd received during our domestic search, but it was our last.  And this one was duly unexpected for we had removed our profile from both our agency and Adoption.com in the previous months in pursuit of a new direction - international adoption.  "Is this Brenda?"  "Yes."  "My name is Cindy.  I'm 8 months pregnant and looking for a family for my baby.  Can we talk?"

Cindy and I talked and talked and connected quite well.  Pretty soon we were making plans to meet half-way between her community and ours.  I was elated and reserved.  Then I remembered the promise.  "Where did you find us?"  "On Adoption.com."  "Really?  When was that?"  "Oh, last month.  I set your information aside until now."  "You mean you found us in December?"  "Yes, I guess so."  

This was our miracle!  Not only had Cindy found us in December, she had found us AFTER we had pulled our profile from adoption.com in November.

Perhaps it sounds silly, but I put a lot of faith in that message from God.  And His Word sustained us through the exciting and potentially unsettling weeks and months ahead.

The first miracle was Alec.  No, I know, everyone says that about their first born child.  But in the case of Alec, he really was a miracle.