Homecomings...heaven.

I am blessed and privileged to attend the airport homecomings of many adopted children...this is one of the MOST amazing experiences one could ever witness. Being an adoptive mother myself allows me the insight of knowing the journey that the family that is returning home with their child(ren) has been on.

You see the family has just endured months of endless paperwork, trips to government buildings, physicals, fingerprinting (sometimes more than once), background checks, shots and records of those shots, passports, fundraising...but most of all they have spent time on their knees...in PRAYER. Prayer for their child, prayer for their journey, prayer for the children they may have to leave for two weeks to travel to go and pick up their new child in the unknown country they are going to all because GOD CALLED THEM THERE.

This past Friday my hubbs, my girls and I went to the welcome home celebration of dear friends bringing home their daughter from China. As we were standing in the airport and the group began to scream and children were holding up signs saying "Welcome Home" and "We Love You" and tears were streaming down our faces...CHILLS began to rush up and down my body...all at once GOD GAVE ME THIS.

THIS is a glimpse of what HEAVEN is like. When you are welcomed HOME. I literally almost lost it right there in the airport. Can you imagine? When WE all are finally welcomed home? This world is just a temporary dwelling place and when we finally make it home...we are greeted with screaming and tears and excitement and a crowd waiting for us? OH HOW MARVELOUS!!!

I was extremely overwhelmed and told my husband in the car and said that little darling just saw what she had been waiting for all her little life...but she saw more than that...a little glimpse of HEAVEN.

Oh, that we would all long to give every waiting child that glimpse of heaven...

Much love,
~K