Pay it Forward...from Ransom to Recompense

On Ian's awareness and fund raising website, located HERE, I have been talking about a family that I am just in utter awe of. The Nalle's are bringing home Aaron, and I featured them on my new awareness site, called A LIFE OF TRUTH.

Most days, I feel like I have a nagging spouse that refuses to zip the lip! God just nags me, constantly! He nags me to do more, nags me to be more, and nags me to work harder, at lots of things that are in his image. Most people see nagging as an annoying thing that is just a sad fact of married life. I see it, in this case, as God saving my life by always reminding me, through emotional, spiritual, and meaningful mental connection, as to what my earthly legacy is supposed to be. With God as my life coach, and the word as my handbook, LOL - I'm set! Bonus: Godly personal training is free!

The Nalle's are traveling again soon, to finally bring Aaron home. Their adoption has cost almost $30,000.00. I need more than that for Ian. It's ransom for children, straight up. Yet, if someone had my Ari, my birth son, behind some dreadful concrete wall, where he could die from starvation and likely would, where he had no mental stimulation, no emotional connections, no fun, no warmth, no hugs, no understanding, nothing really...I would sell every possession I had, beg strangers, and remain upon my knees night and day until I freed him. This is what the Nalle's have done. This is proof of life, as it were. Aaron is no different than Julia and Rob's two birth sons, and he has never been, not since God laid nothing but his faithful servants eyes upon Araon's photograph. (PS - they didn't have to sell everything because he made a way:).

Nag, Nag, Nag....I gave Julia $10 bucks from Ian's fund. I know our donor's would support me on this, all you have to do is FEEL, and you would give more that that to secure Aaron in their arms forever. God says if we do our best, he will do the rest. $10 bucks was truly my best right now, in terms of cold hard cash. However, I have more to give. In something that can never be gotten by money, I am covering The Nalle's (and the Fillmore's, and the Sharp's, and the Crew's family traveling NOW) in constant prayer too. Prayer changes things, it is actually scientifically proven if you want to get technical:)

My recompense for that measly ten bucks is priceless...I'm like a soap opera addict, waiting for notification of a new post, confirmation that Aaron is on the plane, one way, to Virginia (of all places, read HERE and HERE to realize that connection), waiting for the first evidence of home - a boy in his own bed, a boy's face and body filling out because he is being fed and nurtured and loved, waiting for the first video post to hear him laughing. Man, this is good stuff. The joy I get from all of that cannot be bought for 10 bucks.

This is what Julia wrote to me after receiving my pay it forward donation, in which I also told her that I wished it could have been ten thousand dollars:

YOUR 10.00 IS WORTH 10,000.00 - God has multiplied the loaves and fishes a thousand times over for this adoption. Thank you for your donation. It put us over the 28,000.00 mark!! How cool is that??? We have been in awe at His faithful provision day by day. He gets all the glory...

Yes, he certainly does.

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PS - this is "funny." When I started this blog I knew it was going to be about Ian's adoption (even though Ian was not yet confirmed for me), and about my lovely boy Ari, and about my faith walk. As a neo blogger, it is hard to write to yourself (i.e., you have no followers, no one reads your blog). I started to think of it more like an on-line journal that was just for me. Still, we all want followers, come on admit it!! Then, like a figging lightning bolt, as soon as God moved me to the edge of my faith and then nag, nag, nagged me (well, actually literally pushed me), out beyond what I thought I could do and be - BAM, I got followers! Lesson: The way to all things is through him.