IAN

So I will fastforward to four years ago...We were comfortable...we got a phone call from a friend asking if we'd consider adopting a little six yr old boy from Ethiopia..All we knew is his mama couldn't provide for him anymore..We found out more about this beautiful child, and said "YES"! It was within two weeks we were told his mama started selling herself to be able to KEEP her boy. You hear of a mothers love, I would never go there to question her in that desperate time of her life.  We continue to pray for him and the mother who sacrificed...Why I share this time with you is because that is when Comfortable WAS GLARING at me...and the Lord was so clear that even though we are blessed with our kiddos, HE has spilled forth an abundance of LOVE and if we were willing to answer the call of adoption we would be a reflection of our very KING...and also it was a matter of this childs eternity!  Our daughter Mia at this time was in a real health crisis...so to think of trying to adopt and get her figured out was to overwhelming...so I shelfed the call...Hmmm???It was then God began to give me dreams.  The dream that got us moving in the direction of at least doing a homestudy...some paperwork,etc was this...I was in a land that I have never seen before..In this place was my family and to the right of me was Mia..Mind you..she was not quite 4..but in the dream had bigger girl features and stood at a little higher than my hip. and to the left was this little black boy...would love to tell you he was chubby and adorable..but he was very malnourished and had sunken eyes. All his bones were displayed to show the reality of what HUNGER is..I woke up...I remember hitting David awake and said Ethiopia!  We are to adopt a little boy and his name is IAN.  Weird to some, but I knew the journey for this boy had begun.  That week I prayed with absolute petition on behalf of what the Lord was doing for him and how HE was guiding us.  During this week as I was taking Mia to pre-school I took the normal route and prayed the normal prayer of protection and blessing over her as she would be away from me..The normal prayer went into a loud call out for ALL of my children and that HE had each one of them in HIS hands...I remember noting in my heart that He even was having me pray for our future son..I remember stopping  at a two way at the end of that prayer. Right next to the stop sign was a telephone pole and on that pole in bright white was the letters IAN.

 I not only heard God, but HE showed us!  I pulled over and through tear filled eyes snapped this from my cellphone KNOWING it would need to go in his baby book...