Our Miracle

As we wait and pray for the safe return of David Hames, asking God for a miracle, I was reminded of our miracle. 

I find it easy to move on after God answers prayers.  It’s easy to get into the rhythm of life and forget exactly what HE did for us.

Our little girl, just a few weeks old, was taken to a church, left for fate to decide her life.  She was found and taken to an orphanage, where she survived amidst disease and sickness.  Several times she came close to dying, sick and in need of the Great Physician.  As we waited, we prayed for a miracle. We implored God to keep her safe, make her healthy and bring her home to us.  Every time it seemed the end was in sight, there was another roadblock, another reason that we had to wait some more.

It was heartbreaking and emotionally, incredibly hard.  We had people around the world praying that Desta would be released, that she would come home.

And God chose to answer that prayer.  He carried her in his hands throughout every day of her life.  I look at this bubbly, healthy baby girl and am in awe that she survived. 

God is in control. I have to believe that. I have to believe that HE will do what he has planned all along to do.  I might not like his time table, I might not like the outcome, but HE is God and God alone and I am not. 

Each day I pray for our children.  I pray a different prayer for our Desta.  I don’t know what God has in store for this beautiful baby girl.  My job, now, is to love her, care for her, raise her to listen to HIS voice and follow HIS ways.  And I pray that I will live to see her become a beautiful woman who fulfills the plan God set in motion on the steps of that church in a town in Ethiopia.