God is listening...

Today, I was officially convinced that God is listening to the prayers of all of the women like me who are wannabe moms.  Whether they have been trying for just a few months, a few years or have been awaiting their adopted child's arrival for many, many years, he is finally fulfilling requests. 

In addition to our miracle suprise, I have a very good friend who is finally pregnant after multiple IVF attempts.  Turns out, we are about two weeks apart in our due dates.  I finally told her today and we're both thrilled and ecstatic to be experiencing this together - much less at all!

Then, another very good friend who has assured me all alone that she had a feeling that we would be pregnant at the same time is in fact pregnant with her second child and - no lie - is due four days before me.  Amazing.

To top it off, a friend who I have been emailing and chatting with regarding infertility just informed me last night that she just found out she's pregnant too!  Like us, they were awaiting starting IVF (except she had already received her meds, gone through orientation, etc.) and it just happened on its own.  I could not be happier for them.

And the cherry on top was the message I received from my cousin who has been awaiting a child from China via adoption.  Her application was approved some time ago and after numerous broken promises that it would be six more months or twelve more months, she's now at four years and counting.  Well, today, she received notification that an 18-month old little girl is waiting for her.  Do you have chills yet?

The past month has been a whirlwind of happiness and joy for us and so many others and I must just take a moment to appreciate all of the blessings that I and so many of our friends are receiving.  I am praying so hard that every one of these individuals gets only good news as time progresses and that in fact, their dreams are really coming true.  And their prayers are really being answered.  Ours, too.

Everyone says that God works in mysterious ways and answers prayers in his time.  I always believed in this, I just questioned his timing.  Today more than ever, I was made even more sure that he does listen and that this is OUR time.  I'm not sure why this time is better than the years and years that I and my husband and so many of our friends have prayed for, but I have faith that it couldn't be better timing.

God bless the new babies that will come into our life and the lives of our friends.  What an amazing day...