How God brought us to The Village of Hope

I have posted about this before, but I just want to remind everyone how God brought us to The Christmas Village and The Village of Hope. Last summer a friend of mine told me that his wife new of a woman who was going to give her baby up for adoption. He gave me his wife’s number and when I called , she was very encouraging and acted like she thought this would all work out. When you are so desperate for a baby, all you need is just a little bit of encouragement and you’re hooked. I just knew this was God answering our prayer, and this was going to be our baby. Little did I know that this was an answer to prayer, but just not in the way I wanted it to be. I talked to her a few more times and she was still being encouraging. Several weeks went by and I finally called her again. This time she was not being encouraging. She never came out and said it, but I could tell she knew something and this was not going to be our child. I had convinced myself this was going to be our child, so I was devastated this was not it. I got so depressed, and I was getting mad at God all over again. The next day I read Barbie Bassett’s blog, and it really opened my eyes. She was saying that when we take our eyes off of God, we are mince meat for Satan. Boy was he having a good time with me. I was reacting exactly how he wanted me to, and that was turning my back on God. Thankfully God stepped in and basically shook me. I normally wouldn’t have ever emailed Barbie, but I just wanted to let her know how her blog basically saved me from walking away from God. I told her a little bit about what we had been through, and when she replied to me, she let me know she is on the board for The Christmas Village. I had never even heard of them. She gave me the information on how to contact them, and we had our first meeting with them on September 11, 2008. At the time they were starting their adoption ministry, which is The Village of Hope. I can clearly look back now and see that had we not heard about that baby, and if I had not gotten so depressed, Barbie’s blog would not have meant what it did to me, and I wouldn’t be about to become the mama for this little boy. God uses situations that aren’t any fun to go through at the time to bring you to where He wants you to be.