Miracles!

Do you ever have things that you don't even pray for because you know that they will never happen?

Turns out, I do. I know, in my head, that "The things that are impossible with people are possible with God," (Luke 18:27) but I don't pray like I believe it.

In February, I'll be attending the Empowered to Connect Conference at Irving Bible Church. I cannot say enough good things about this conference. I was over-the-moon excited when I convinced my mother to come with me. She's completely on board with the Karyn Purvis approach, but her schedule is not always her own, so it was a huge win to get her to come.

Tonight, I learned that my dad is thinking of coming as well. People, I cannot overstress how miraculously amazing this is. My dad is awesome on many levels, but I'm pretty sure he's never read, heard, or seen a sentence-worth of "parenting advice" in his life. That he would even consider attending this conference absolutely blows me away. The fact that he recognizes that my kids will need to be parented/grandparented differently than bio kids has had my jaw on the floor since I got the news.

Readers, in all my thirty-one years on this planet, I have never, ever felt so loved by my dad as I did when I heard that he might come to this conference.

It is a miracle, plain and simple. A ridiculous, unexpected, life-altering miracle.

You don't have any idea how much it stuns me. And mostly I am stunned at the realization of the enormity of God's love for these children, the unknown children He has earmarked as my kids. He wanted their grandfather to be so well prepared for them. Well prepared in a way I wasn't even audacious enough to pray for.

Wow. And HALLELUJAH!!!