My heart leapt when I got the email; "we have news about Emily". I held my breath as I read on....... Emily has a "forever family" !!!!!! Selfishly,a little sadly, it is not us. Our agency worked very diligently to find Emily and her paperwork. They thought they had. They received some paperwork last week but the name on her paperwork was not her name. Each child living at Newday Foster Home has a home orphanage. Though they may not have lived there for years, that is who maintains their paperwork. When they sent Emily's paperwork it had a different name than the one they were looking for. They immediately matched this child with a waiting family! We rejoice that God has answered our prayers and given Emily a new name.

I tell you this background to say; this was no mistake!! This has God's fingerprints all over it!! We have prayed from the beginning that God would place Emily in the best family for her!! We have sought God's will throughout this process. It is no mistake that Emily had a "mistaken name" for this matched her with the family that God wanted her to have. What I'm trying to say is:

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose." Rom 8:28

That being said there are 143,000,000 orphans throughout the world (please read that number again). That is staggering! All of these children are waiting for forever families.... we await the one God has chosen for ours!