Exactly one week after learning the outcome of the situation with Susan, a friend of my mom’s told us about a baby in the foster care system that might become adoptable in May. I started calling DCF to find out what we would need to do to adopt through the foster care system, should God continue to open the door to this opportunity.

God did not place this baby in our home but He did use these circumstances to push us in the direction of our current match.

After learning that the situation with Susan was no longer a possibility, God lite a fire in our hearts and we knew it was time to officially begin our journey to #2.

Dave and I had decided that we were going to put our names with multiple avenues and then just wait and see where God lead. We had five different avenues we wanted to pursue, including the foster care situation.

On May 2nd, 2011, while Little Bug was doing Independent Playtime, I got the list of names and numbers I needed to call to get the ball rolling with all these different avenues. Most of my phone calls that day were to DCF about the foster care situation.

My last priority that day was to contact the agency we had adopted Little Bug through. Independent Playtime was almost over for Little Bug and I almost did not pick up my cell phone to call Emily.

But I felt like I should go ahead and call her. Right then.

So I did.

I left her a message saying, “We are ready to get the ball rolling on another adoption! Just wanted to let you know. Please call me back when you get the chance.”

Ten minutes later, my cell phone rang and it was Emily.

She started telling me about a woman who had just called her the previous week. As I listened to Emily speak, the details about this woman sounded strangely familiar.

I dismissed the thoughts though and told myself that this woman couldn’t possibly be the same woman Susan had been working with.

I called Dave and told him about my conversation with Emily. We both decided we wanted to learn more. I called Emily back and told her we were very interested about the situation she had told me about earlier.

Emily scheduled a phone conference with us for the next day, May 3rd.

May 3rd I drove to Dave’s work and he came out to the car and we dialed Emily for our 3:30 phone conference.

Emily had the woman’s file open in front of her and she began telling us what she knew of this case.

When Emily said something in particular, I knew.

I looked over at Dave sitting in the passenger seat and mouthed the words, This has got to be the same girl, to him.

I stopped Emily and told her we needed to tell her something.

She listened as I explained the past almost two months to her.

All three of us were dumbstruck and in awe of God, even though none of us could be 100% certain this was the same situation because I had never known the woman’s name while working with Susan. However, we knew the similarities would be one in a million if this was actually two separate cases.

I will never forget Emily’s words, “Well, this sounds like a perfect match.”

We talked a little more and then hung up with Emily.

I couldn’t say anything at first. I just sat there, trying to process what had just happened.

And then the tears came.

Rarely do I express my emotion through tears, but in that moment, there simply were no words as I replayed what God had taught me over the past almost two months.

God is in control! If this is the baby He has for me, NOTHING will stand in His way of placing this baby in my family. God’s got this. I just have to roll with things as they happen.

Emily said she would show this woman our profile definitely on May 12th, if not sooner.

Another nine days of waiting!

After that phone conference I wrote in my journal: No, we are not officially matched. But God’s got this and I am rolling with it.

May 12th, Emily told us she was going to go talk to the woman and take her our profile. She told me she would call me as soon as she knew anything.

Around lunchtime on May 12th, Emily called.

She said, “I am just leaving Melody’s now. She chose you! She really liked you guys!”

I said, “She chose us??!”

Emily said, “Yes!”

As the pieces of the puzzle started coming together and I realized the magnitude of the miracle God had done again to bring us our second child, I literally couldn’t put all this into words until weeks after we were officially matched.

Late last week, Emily called me to tell me she had spoken to Susan and had asked Susan if she had worked with a “Melody”.

Susan confirmed what I knew in my heart.

God had indeed done another miracle and this woman was in fact the same woman Susan had been working with!

Apparently, after Melody decided that she no longer wanted to place this baby through Susan, she called Emily.

Emily met with Melody for the first time on April 26th – just six days after Melody had decided to not work with Susan anymore.

Five days later, on May 2nd, I contacted Emily and told her we were officially ready to start the process of adoption #2.

Ten days later, we were matched with Melody.

When God is ready to move, He moves, and nothing stands in His way.

I could not have orchestrated all that if I tried. God’s Plans are way bigger than our human minds can comprehend.

All He requires of us is surrender and obedience, which started for me on March 8, 2009, when I learned pregnancy wasn’t in God’s Plan for me.

Miracles have snowballed from that place. God has taken my barren womb, and in ways only He can, He has performed miracles.

Adoption is no cake walk, for sure. Nothing is certain. We are dealing with risks that I would rather not deal with when it comes to building my family. We are dealing with health risks that I would rather my children not have to deal with.

But, we are here once again, on another journey of faith.

And I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, God’s faithfulness goes before us every step of the way.

God’s got this and I am going to continue to roll with it, trusting that God is in control and if this baby is the baby God has planned to be our second child, nothing will keep God from placing this baby with us.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY. GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE. AND WILL DO.

- Elaine