Her Name....

Ok, so I've been meaning to tell you the story of how we decided on our daughter's name. 

On June 21st, we received the call from our friend about a baby soon to be born.  They asked us to please pray about possibly adopting her.  You know the rest of the story so far, but what happened on that day was pretty cool.

After the phone call, I ran upstairs to shower and get ready since some friends were coming over to play.  While in the shower God and I were having a conversation something like this:

Me:  God, are you serious?
God:  Yes
Me:  Are you crazy?
God:  No
Me:  How on earth can we do this?
God:  Do you trust Me?
Me:  Yes, but this is crazy!
God:  Yes, do you trust Me?
Me:  How can we do this?!

You get the picture.  Me freaking out and God quietly and Faithfully encouraging me.  He loves me so much!  He loves you too, in case you ever wondered!!  Then I got out of the shower and was doing my hair and having the same conversation with God.  As much as I believe that He is God and is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or imagine, I'm still only human and struggle with fear and unbelief.  So after I asked Him for like the 100th time if He was crazy, in walks Alea...

She was holding out her precious little hands like she had something in them.  Then she spoke and she said, "Mommy, this is my baby sister Mia...you need to take her."  I of course about fainted, and then asked her, "what did you say?"  and she replied with her little hands held out open in front of her, "this is my baby sister Mia, and she is very tiny, and little, and precious, and you need to take her."  Is it a coincidence that she came in at that exact time to say those exact things???  Hmmmm...  Disclaimer:  (we don't have any friends, toys, tv shows or anything that have the name Mia in them.  She has NEVER heard this name before, just so you know).    

So anyway, once again I asked God if He was crazy.  This unbelief thing was getting a bit out of hand, so He lovingly reminded me of a scripture in Mark 9:24 that says: ..."I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!"  It was such a gentle reminder to me that He can do anything!!  So that is my prayer now, "I believe, help me overcome my unbelief!" 

Then, the day after I received "the call"  I got an email from my Sister in Law telling me she had a dream.  In this dream she had two orphans on her hips.  One of the orphans she was keeping, but she knew that she couldn't keep the other.  She was crying and asking God what she was supposed to do.  In the dream she realized that the little girl's name matched my other children's names and she knew that this baby girl belonged in our family.  This dream happened  a few days before we got "the call."

So, like any mother would do....I ran to the computer to research the name Mia.  I of course, still hadn't decided that she was ours(even though all sorts of things were happening to confirm it) because I was still in the "you're crazy God phase."  All of my children have names that are Hebrew.  I just like the meaning behind all of them.  I have a Caleb and an Ethan, and Alea(which is spelled Aliyah in Hebrew).  And guess what I found....Mia is Hebrew.  And Italian.  And Scandanavian.  And probably a few others, haha!!  She was a perfect match!!!  Coincidence????  It was beginning to be uncanny.

Another "coincidence" that happened was just a week previous to "the call" was, I told Warren that adoption was on my heart strongly and that if our house didn't sell any time soon, that I wanted to discuss possibly adopting again.  But in my mind, that wasn't in the near future, just the future.  Little did I know....

Here's another "coincidence"...Back in February I did a Beth Moore bible study on the Fruit of the Spirit.  We were studying Grace, and the Greek word for Grace is Charis(we prefer to spell it Kariss).  When I studied that, I wrote in the margins that I wanted that as a part of my next daughter's name.  Even then He was preparing me to be the mother of a little girl who was growing in her birth mother's womb.   

All of these things seem to be coincidental, but I serve a God who is the Creator of the Universe and nothing is coincidental for Him.  He set the stars in place, and hung the moon.  He made the sun.  If He can do that, then Nothing is impossible for Him!  He set all of these seemingly small things up because He loved me and wanted me to see that He had been working before I even knew I had a daughter!!  He just used them to help confirm to me that it was indeed Him:O)

So, if you didn't catch it all...our daughter's name is:

Mia Kariss (Chinese name) Heckert

I'll share her Chinese name with you once she is legally ours.  Until that time, let me tell you, she is just the most precious treasure that this mommy's heart can stand!!  We all are so very excited to have her join our family.  She is longed for, prayed for, sought after and totally and completely loved!!!