I had that same feeling this morning. Although, this time I had not been on a plane or traveled far from home. Actually...I've been part of a Yard Sale. An adoption fundraiser. A week-long, glorious, blood-sweat-and-tears, over-the-top, full-of-joy-unspeakable, only-God-could-have-pulled-it-off kind of Yard Sale....
I keep replaying the pieces in my head that started to fall into place last Monday (a week ago). Honestly, the pieces were scattered all over the place...and really, there seemed to be quite a few "pieces" missing! But one morning, God opened our {our, meaning my girls and I...the best, most incredible girlfriends in all the land} eyes wide and began to show us one piece after the other. Oh, as a matter of fact, there even turned out to be more "pieces" that we imagined, and we had no puzzle box top to help us see the finished product! {It was quite overwhelming at times.} Really, that's probably a good thing, because we wouldn't have believed that it would end up quite like it did anyway! Once or twice, I thought we might even suffocate under it all. But we didn't. Instead, God overwhelmed us to tears with His goodness and lightened our hearts with laughter again and again as each piece fell right where He'd generously, graciously intended it to.
Now that it's all over, I sit here unable to really, truly, adequately articulate my gratitude for the way God abundantly provided for us. Nor am I yet able to explain all that God did and taught us through a simple, humble Yard Sale Fundraiser with the most meager of beginnings!
{...but, believe me, I will certainly try! I don't want to miss a thing God is showing us and teaching us along the way of our adoption journey! I'm already working on a list of Yard Sale Blessings! Who woulda thought!?!?!?!}
Oh, did I mention the Grand Total....????
It was over $1600!!!!!
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine..." Eph 3:20