God Sightings Part 2

Diane introduced the idea of God Sightings, and I'd like to continue that by sharing how His provision got us moving in our journey, not once but twice. While these stories are both about money, that's not the point of this post - it's about God meeting our needs!

After signing up with CAC, our next move was to complete our homestudy. We knew the cost would be about $3,000 and we weren't quite comfortable with that just coming out of our general savings. We knew we'd either have to raise it or find other provision.

As we started talking with a local social services agency about getting our homestudy from them, they just happened to lower their price from $3,000 to $2,500. And right at that same time, we received checks from two friends offering their support, one for $500 and the other for $1,000! Suddenly, we only needed to find $1k.

All of that was enough to tell us that it was God's timing. We were ready to sign up, knowing that the rest would come in. But then we got another surprise - from a solar company of all places. Several months earlier, a salesman had come to our door, asking to put panels on our roof for free while they'd maintain ownership (a PPA arrangement). Well I was taking my time researching that, making sure that the costs were competitive, the company was reputable, etc. and had pretty much just decided, "OK, let's go for it," when they called us up and offered an incentive: they would give us $1,000 if we signed up by the end of that month. Well suddenly it was a no-brainer! We gave it a week of prayer to be sure, but in the end our homestudy was paid for. Wow.

We had a similar experience a few months later with our profile books. We knew it would cost a few hundred dollars to print them and were ready to use our savings for that. As it came time to print and we counted up how many we would need, it started looking like we would need over $900 for the whole thing. That was much more than we had been preparing for, but we were still ready to proceed with it.

Well in God's way, He provided the means again. As we were prepping to print, the printer ended up running a 30% off sale, bringing our total down to about $650. The same day, I was finishing our taxes and you know what our return totaled? That's right, $650. Wow again.

Between the timing and the amounts, we see that God was showing up to move us along at the right times. It's been humbling to be so uncertain in the moment, but we take comfort as we look at the perfect journey that we've been traveling. Our next step is to be matched and we just expect to be presented with the perfect baby and family at the ideal time. God is sovereign.