God is Good!

I have been meaning to write this post for ages, and now it seems somewhat anticlimactic...perhaps because words can not adequately communicate the whole of the event.

Remember several weeks ago, when Martin was out hunting and I had a zillion things on the go?  Well, here is an update on 2 of the most amazing events of that week.

First of all, we had a fundraising soup and pie supper at our church to raise funds for God's Littlest Angels in Haiti.  On the Monday that we were making soup, one of the gals asked if we were doing a silent auction...UH!  WHAT???...someone had offered a donation and this gal was wondering if we could get half a dozen items to have a silent auction.   Within minutes the gals helping cook had offered several more items.  Thus began a whirlwind of activity to get more items.  I spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday making phone calls, stopping in at various businesses in Osler, Hague, and Warman...and picking up items.  When all was said and done we had three 8 ft tables filled with items...everything from a meat package to a flower arrangement...to bring in almost $800!!!  Not bad considering our supper was on Wednesday! 
We made 3 kinds of soup, making double  the amount we had originally intended.  By 8 pm we only had a little vegetable soup left...amazing!!!   Our church is small...really small...as in 60 people attending services on Sunday...that includes babies!  And yet somehow God blessed us and sent about 170 people to our supper to raise over $3000!!  That will buy a huge amount of preemie formula, diapers, etc.

The second event that week was our local adoption support group meeting.  I hesitated to have a speaker come out due to the challenge of coming up with enough money...even enough for an honorarium.  We ended up having 13 people come out...not a huge group, but enough to pay our speaker and still small enough for people to open up. 
We met with Deb Gibson, an adoptive mom to 7.  Deb is an amazing speaker and offered some very practical and helpful advice.  After her presentation she took the time to answer specific questions from our group of parents.  I could write an entire essay on what she spoke about, but I would not do her speech justice.  However, I would compare it to the writing of Karen Purvis' The Connected Child.  She stressed the idea of self care, especially for mothers and also touched on grace based parenting.  The group really connected and I received much positive feedback!
We have been implementing some of Deb's ideas and have had incredible success (and not just with our adopted kids)!  Thank you God!!!