December 8, 2009

Today we went back to the Adoption Registry Center to complete official paperwork and formalize our adoption of Emeline. On the way back to the hotel, I experienced on of those moments in life when you see God's hand at work.

As our driver careened through busy traffic in this city of 12 million on the Pearl River in southern China, I heard Karen singing softly to Emeline, who then responded by signing back to her. It struck me at that moment that this petite little girl, with wavy black hair, who was once a lost daughter of China, living only a day ago in an orphanage, was one who was now found--across whatever divide of culture, geography or biology there may be-- by the simplicity of love, which is always able to set things in their right and proper order.

As our girls would say at their school, "God is good, all the time; All the time, God is good." I saw that fact made manifest today in the bond of love between a mother and her newest daughter.