Grace

I feel like I am unable to put the words into the right order to be able to share this story with you and I know that my little post on it will not even come close to expressing it to its fullest, but I feel it is better to have what I can write written than nothing at all. This is the story of a little girl named Grace,

A few weeks ago a family at a fellowship that Travis and I go to sometimes shared a prayer request with everyone, they told of a little baby girl who had been found in a pit latrine. She was only a few hours old and yet had been thrown into the toilet to die. Those who found her just heard a slight whimper because the little baby had been wrapped in a flour bag before being thrown into the pit. The rescuers were able to lower someone very small into the pit in order to bring the baby out and by the Grace of God they got her in time.

After being pulled from the bit the authorities tried placing her in an orphanage but none would take her the reason being, as ironic as it sounds, she was too healthy. She miraculously hadn't suffered any harm in her first few hours and was free of AIDS and any other life threatening illness so she was rescued but without a home.

Through the next few weeks, Graces story of hardships continued she was then placed in a home with a woman from a local church but it was difficult for the woman because she worked full time and therefor had to place her in the care of a house girl most of the time and on top of that her husband was not a believer and had a not so flattering history. To say the least it seemed like Grace's life had improved very little in terms of safety.

The really good news is soon to come but first a few more facts, In Uganda like many other countries it is bewildering because there are seamlessly countless orphans with very few having opportunities to be taken in by people and yet it is very difficult for anyone not from their country to adopt them or have custody of them. Well by another act of God's grace the police authority gave custody of the baby to the couple who had lifted her up for prayer a few weeks earlier.

Grace is in the care of a family who now have four precious little girls. Two biological and now two from Uganda.

I got to see Grace for the first time on Sunday and it was all I could do to keep myself from crying because she is such a beautiful little girl and to think of how someone out of desperation and fear (or whatever reason it was) could throw her into a pit and leave her to die is just unfathomable.

Grace's story is a reminder to me that like her we were are born in a pit and yet God hears our cry and not only rescues us out of the bit but adopts us into his family as one of his own. Loving us and caring for us our whole life through.

There is still a long road ahead for Grace just because the authorities have given her into the custody of a loving and caring family the process of adoption is long and unpredictable. Please pray that God will bless the process and open doors and windows where they need to be open.