Anyone from Minnesota?

I don't think I have it in me to write a book right now, even though have that amount to write....I have been doing a lot of thinking about the people I have met along this adoption journey.  Two years ago on a huge facebook page called Adopting From Haiti, someone posted, "Anyone on here from Minnesota?"  I took the risk to respond.

She wrote, "Is there anyone on this page adopting from GLA who lives in Minnesota?"

Today the daughter of this person is one of Mack's favorite people in the world.

I have met 100s of people on Facebook who are adopting from Haiti.  I have had teens I mentor talk to me about internet safety.  :-)

Before Mack came home these people provided the best support and encouragement.  We are going through the same process.  They get it when no one else does.  For a time, I felt God put people these people in my life for me.

Did He?  Yes I think so.  I am beginning to see though that two years ago he already knew that my little boy was going to need the comfort and friendship of this little girl he dearly loves.  So I responded to a facebook post and now a little boy and a little girl who lived in Haiti at the same orphanage live twenty minutes away from each other in Minnesota.

There are several families here in MN.  Then there are families from all over the US and Canada with kids Mack loves. Sometimes we FaceTime.  Most of the time we look at pictures and his face lights up as recounts each child's name.

I look forward to what these relationships will mean to him as he grows into the man God has created him to be.

This weekend we spent time with five other families.  So fun and also something that could just make me cry cause I'm like, WOW God, you care SO very much!  It's amazing!