After receiving the phone call and reviewing Mila’s file, we decided that same day that we would write a letter of intent and pursue her adoption. God had led us here, and there was no way we would say no.
A few weeks later as we were waiting on approval of paperwork, I decided to look up Mila’s birthday on my calendar. Mothers know the intricate details of our children’s first days of life, and while I knew it would be different with Mila, I wondered what I had been doing when she had been born.
To my disappointment, nothing was written on my calendar. Nothing at all on the day she was born and not much during the week before or the week after. I couldn’t even say, “Oh, she was born when we were…”. Nope. There was nothing.
Time passed as we waited on paperwork. Committees. More paperwork. There is a lot of waiting in adoption. One day as I was sweeping the kitchen and praying for patience, I thought back to Mila’s birthday. And I began to wonder again. Only this time, I wondered what was going on in our lives during the time Mila came into being and was conceived.
Now, anyone who has used online due date calculators knows that you put in a conception date, missed cycle date, or in vitro date to get a due date. I didn’t know any of that information. I only knew her birthday. So, I guessed the conception date.
September put us past her birthday. August got us into her birth month. I kept guessing until the date August 6, 2018 showed her birthday. August 6th was her estimated conception date. I welled up. I knew that August of that year was when my grandfather had passed away, but it took me a few moments to realize that Mila was conceived on the actual day that my Papaw had died.
That day had changed me. Papaw’s death had already been filled with unexplainable Miracles. And two years later, we followed God into an adoption and found out our baby girl had been conceived on that exact day and given the name Milagros (Miracles) at birth. I melted into tears at God’s goodness.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
Friends, God has a purpose for each of us. We can trust His faithfulness and yield to His plans without fear. For certainly He works all things for good as we seek to know and love Him. That’s a promise we can count on.
In my next post, I’ll share with you how God confirmed Mila’s middle name.
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