Connecting the dots...

Have you ever sat back and connected the dots on events in your life and been totally amazed! God has chosen to reveal a little more of this amazing tapestry of Libi Faith.

So, go back with me to April of 2006.

Brad and I were “fresh into” this journey of adoption. God had moved our hearts to surrender to Him and adopt. We had just been licensed for foster care and we were waiting for a call for our first placement. I was imagining that it would be a baby that we would adopt and call our own.

Toward mid April we were asked to take in a unwed expectant young lady, Mandy, as many of you know. There was not much to consider when we were called about Mandy. Brad and I had many conversations about taking in an unwed mother, so we felt that God had prepared us.

I had a dream weeks before we received this phone call about Mandy. In my dream Brad and I were outside a delivery room and had a dark skinned, dark haired babe in our arms. There was a girl with long blonde hair in the delivery bed. After I had the dream I shared it with Brad. I was more intrigued about the baby than I was the girl in the bed. I assumed the girl in the delivery bed had to be my sister in law because I did not know any blonde women that we would be in the delivery room with.

A couple of weeks later I received my first email and pictures of Mandy. The first picture I saw sent me to the floor with shouts and tears. I had seen this girl before, Mandy was the girl in my dream! I had never had a specific vision like this before in my life.

I wondered and prayed that Mandy’s baby might be our child. I began to imagine a girl, I think because that baby in my vision seemed to be a girl.

So, how does this tie in with Libi? The day I saw the pictures and read the verses that follow was the day that Libi Faith was born in China! There was a strong desire in my heart for a baby, and the beginnings of a desire for a daughter. These are the verses that were in my journal that day:

Job 33:13-15

13 Why do you complain to him
that he answers none of man's words?

14 For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though man may not perceive it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men
as they slumber in their beds,

so...who was the dark haired babe? It was our foster daughter, Ari. We did not know that our arms would only hold her briefly to prepare us for one we would hold forever. The vision of 2 girls that were preparing me for THE ONE GIRL, born that very day! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Thank You, God, for revealing this piece of the journey, You are AMAZING!