Now 7 years have gone by and I know I've shared with a lot of you already but God worked on my husband and I for the past year. He showed me that even though "I" had these plans of a big family, God had something different planned. He showed me that I can't control everything in my life and if I surrender to him, he would take care of the rest. He brought a peace to my heart that I had not had for a very long time. He changed me and my husband; our hearts and the way we viewed having another baby. He led us to foster and now we have a beautiful baby girl. She is 18 months old and has a smile that lights up a room!
Last night, I was looking for something in that closet and came across those items. I pulled the dress out and almost started crying right then and there. It was a perfect fit for our baby girl! Even back then, all those years ago, God knew who that little pink dress would be for. He was just working on me. He was what my good friend Leatha always says, "stretching" me to become the woman he made me to be. He was building me to become a woman who would be strong enough to love a baby that I might not be able to keep forever. Even when I couldn't understand, God knew the desires of my heart.
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - Psalm 139