Just the other day, there was one joyful and emotional reunion at an Iowa aiport as my sweet college roommate finally met the son and daughter she and her husband have been waiting for for years. Their story is an incredible one, and I only know a portion of it. But it is a story that only God could write.
As they were in the process of adopting a 4 and 2 year old from Africa, they found out they were pregnant with twins. And that the twins would likely be born at the same time their kids would come home. Can you imagine going from zero to four kids?!
Sure enough, they had beautiful twin girls at the end of August and four weeks later, her husband and his mom left for Africa to bring home their other two children. They expected to stay 21 days but arrived to find out that this country decided to stop issuing exit letters. So after much waiting and prayer and with some help from a believer in that country who advocated for them, they finally came home FORTY DAYS later, sweet little L and E in tow.
Can you imagine the reunion? Husband and wife, dad and newborn babies, and a waiting mother meeting her kids for the first time. I so wish I could have been there. I was thankful that they had a photographer capture the moment. If you're ready to shed some tears, here is a link to the slide show.
What a picture of the joy of our Father in heaven as He adopts us as His own through His son, Jesus! The intensity of a mother's love for children she's just met multiplied by a million is the love our Creator has for His children. And what joy He has in seeing us reconciled to Him through Christ as we receive a new forever identity as His son, His daughter, His beloved. Death to life, darkness to light, the old has gone, the new has come!
