Special Addition...

While this blog is mostly about Matiss and his visit to America, I had to post this! This house has been a regular international thoroughfare here lately. This weekend, we had the very special privilege of playing host to Tian Ai, now Tiffany, and her new American family. This is the very special 6 year old I met in China last year. Last fall, I started the process of locating her file, a regular needle in a haystack endeavor... outside of God's hand that is. I wanted for her and my other 2 special Urumqi girls to be adopted to America and wanted to do everything I could to make that happen for them. While God seems to have closed doors right now for my other two girls, Tian Ai did come to America and God placed her in a wonderful, loving Christian home. After I found her file at an American agency, the agency took my information and said they would pass it along to the family that had accepted her referral, only one week earlier. They called me almost immediately, wishing to hear about their daughter that I had gotten to spend so much time with and fell head over heels for in China. It's a God connection that will last for eternity. I'm still so grateful for the miracle God has allowed me to be a part of in her. What a blessing. SO, I thought you'd like to see a picture of Tian Ai, now Tiffany, one year after I first met her in a Chinese orphanage... sitting in my kitchen and giving me a hug. God is good!