Celebrating "Eves"

Happy NeW  yEaR’s EvE!! 

I’ve always enjoyed celebrating New Year’s Eve but mainly just because I like any excuse to celebrate anything.  J  BUT this New Year’s Eve seems to have a more exciting feel to it.  The EVE before a NEW YEAR!!  A NEW Year = new hope, new strength and renewed faith!   And we all know what we HOPE this brand spankin’ new year holds for us!!!!!!  J  OUR CHILD/REN!!!!!!!!  Please Lord!!!!  Hopefully by this time next year we’ll be celebrating quietly at home making sure that our child/ren gets in bed at a reasonable hour.  J

Speaking of Eves- - let me tell you about this past Christmas Eve.  We received lots of nice gifts but one extra special gift from my parents.  They gave us a children’s book entitled, “God Found Us You” by Lisa Tawn Bergren and Laura J. Bryant.  (We can’t wait to read this precious book to our child/ren!!)  It is a story of a baby fox that was adopted.  After we opened this present from my parents, they asked that everyone get quiet so we could read it aloud.  J

Here’s a brief summary of the book:

(It begins with Little Fox asking his Mama Fox to tell him again about the day that he came home.  Her response is this….)

“…For so long I dreamed of you,” she said, snuggling closer. 

“Bout me?” 

“About you.  I dreamed of how you would look, smell, even what you would sound like.  And every day I thought of how wonderful it would be to hold you in my arms.  I started seeing you everywhere.  In the leaves of the giant oak and in the bark of the pine.  Even in the stars!  Oh, how I longed for the day that you would arrive.  When God would find us you.”

(Mama Fox goes on to tell little fox about how she waited and waited and waited for him to come home to her.  The illustrations show her waiting through all four seasons.  They even talk about how his mother that had him must be as beautiful as he is handsome, loves him and prayed that he would be safe with a forever family.  It’s beautiful throughout the entire story.  And I love the ending….)

“Mama Fox tucked Little Fox into bed and he giggled through her last kisses.  They said their prayers and whispered, “Nighty night” just like they always did.  Little Fox was glad that he had a cozy home and good food and a mama who loved him very, very much.  And he went to sleep dreaming about the day he came to the big woods…

And first smelled his mama…

And knew he was loved…

And finally was home.

“When God found us you,” Mama Fox whispered in his dreams, “you made me the happiest mama in the world.”

After reading this story aloud with my family, there was not a dry eye in the house.  We are so thankful and blessed to be surrounded by family (and friends) that are praying our baby home.  It also comforts us knowing (and seeing) that the people closest to us are literally aching with us for our child to come home.  Oh how our child is incredibly loved already.  J

  This little book will always be a beautiful reminder of that special day.  J

There’s just something special about celebrating “Eves”.  Christmas EVE rocked my socks off and today is New Year’s EVE and it has an exciting/hopeful feel to it……. 

The definition of eve is:  the evening or day before a special day. 

I can’t imagine a more special day than the day that we bring our child/ren home!!

May that special “eve” come soon.  J

“Faith in God includes faith in His timing.” ~Neel A. Maxwell