With November upon us I’ve already started thinking about the Christmas letter I will write this year.

This has been one incredible year.

When I think back to the start of this year I remember thinking God had to have something marvelous up His sleeve!

During my battle with infertility, I knew God wasn’t going to leave me childless because being a mother has been my heart’s desire since childhood.

As hard as it was (and it was VERY hard), I knew I had to wait on the Lord to unveil His Plan in His time.

Waiting on the Lord is hard business.

We are not a people who like to wait. We want it now.

However, I learned, as I waited, that waiting on the Lord is totally worth it.

And the best part of all is when God does reveal His Plan and you look back in time and you can see the protective, guiding Hand of God leading you every step of the way.

Often times, you can even look back and see a miracle unfolding right before your very eyes.

The 48 days between turning in our adoption paperwork and Little Bug’s birth are fading fast in my memory as more time passes. During those 48 days I witnessed more miracles than I ever thought possible as God started revealing His perfect plan to us during those days.

I don’t want to forget one single thing.

So I decided I needed to take time and think about how God brought Little Bug into our lives and write down all the ways God was obviously involved in the intricate details of that process.

I’m going to start from the very beginning.

to be continued…

- Elaine