Miracles and Friends

I had the privilege at watching a miracle happen this week. Not your garden variety water into wine miracle but a miracle just the same.

If you don't know by now my favorite scripture in the Bible is Romans 8:28 "For all things work together for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to his purpose."
This has become over the years my motto for life. I seem to say it to someone at least once a week. God proves it to me over and over again seemingly on a daily basis.

This week I watched as God walked it out in someone else's life. January 5th unless your head is buried in the sand you know that Haiti had a massive earthquake. It left many people dead and many more homeless. The devastation that rocked this poor country is astounding and the inability for help to get there quickly showed just how much destruction there was.

Haiti has a ton of orphans and now that number has increase because of this quake. Typically the bureaucracy of the government and I suspect greed made the adoption process tedious and drawn out, often as long as four years to get a child and many thousand of dollars. There are hundreds possibly thousands of children stuck in the middle of this process just waiting to go to a family in another country and have a better life. I know of two such families. They both go to my church and they both wanted to give a better life to a child.

The miracle of which I speak was one that took a horrible destructive situation and made something beautiful out of it. Because of the devastation the quake took on the orphanages these children were left without a safe place to sleep or eat. So the people took action. Some came from the concerned potential parents here, some were politicians, and some in Haiti saw the need and with the sweeping glorious hand of God took action.

So what did I witness? Yesterday I watched as two very tired but very happy families walk off a plane carrying and holding the hands of children they didn't expect to see for quite a while. It was a very touching scene to see these three boys coming to a better life. Not just a better life of material wealth but to a life with wonderful Christian parents that will raise them to know Christ.

Yes I witnessed a miracle yesterday. Praise the Lord for he is worthy to be Praised!