She spreads hope

The timing was impeccable as God's timing always is.

After a discouraging weekend, a wild goose chase, and more questions than answers with one prodigal...

Pictures of a new baby from another.

And in response to, "Can we come visit?" An immediate, "Yes!"

For one whose mother is not, cannot, be in her life, another chance to speak life and encouragement. You can do this, Mama.

But the disparity is obvious. One who wanted a family her whole life but when she got it, feared every part of it, but in leaving and wandering, is still drawn to it, stands outside the door and wonders if it can really be hers.

One who has had a family from the beginning, is loved and loves in return, and who is learning to share that love with another. One who always wanted to meet and know more about her first family and since she has, she understands how important it is to know that you are loved, to be nurtured and raised in love, to connect and to attach. She loves well and she spreads hope.

A good reminder, in a time when people have a different definition of success than you, when they're looking for human success, immediate success, and not God's definition, that God is still in control, and every one of his children has a story, and none of those stories are over until they are over!

He pursues the one, leaving the 99, and He calls us to do the same. It's wearying, it's heartbreaking, and sometimes it just looks hopeless. We never give up because He doesn't give up on us.

We spread hope.