Gifts on December 24th ... Christmas Eve

We've been waiting for this form called an I-171H from Homeland Security. This is our approval to adopt our 3 kids in Ethiopia.  So I called their office in Helena, Montana and left a message, wondering when we might receive it.  The Lord knows you can't talk to a person!  They called back and said they had already sent it to us!  That letter of approval we got, WAS the I-171H.  It was just behind the typed letter.  So we've had it since Dec 24th!

December 24th, 2002, I stood in my front yard with my little family and buried a little box under the fir trees.  We had lost our last baby after 3 months of pregnancy.  It was buried on Christmas Eve.  As we stood there singing Amazing Grace... it started snowing.  I love the snow.  The Lord knows I love the snow.  It was a gift.  It reminded me of the song...

Mercy is falling, is falling, is falling.
Mercy it falls like a sweet spring rain.
Mercy is falling, is falling all over me...

And now 7 years later we recieved 3 gifts on Christmas Eve.
Our court date
Our I-171H
The CD of Gadeza, our Ethiopian son

God is so good.