You may know that in 1994, after two years of searching, God pointed me in the direction of Edmonton, Alberta Canada to locate Elizabeth's birth mother. This blog day is not long enough to share with you that story. You may be interested in watching this 21 minute video about that part of our lives.
While the experience of connecting a 27 year division was fulfilling to all parties, the part that I remember today was a letter that Elizabeth received about a week after that telephone reunion. Overnight, Elizabeth learned about her 4 new siblings. I look back and now realize what a pill to swallow. Two brothers and two sisters. The letter was from a sweet little 12 year old name Erin; Elizabeth's new Canadian sister. To begin the letter, she acknowledged that her mother and father shared with her the revelation that she had a sister in North Carolina. In that first paragraph, in her young innocent way, she said the news was like "winning the lottery". She was so excited about inviting this stranger-new sister into her familiy....this stranger, who just a decade later would wear a wedding party gown and be in her wedding.
I remember the day that we landed in Edmonton, Canadian to meet these strangers we now called family. Crossing the bridge on the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of this new city, I gazed downstream without complete understanding of what God had accomplished in our lives.
Today, so much water has melted and flowed down this glacier fed river, forging its way through the Canadian Rockies. Like the grand mountains along the river, we all stand back looking down into the valley of memories where two families were brought together from circumstances of despair to a glorious reunion. God can make bad into good!
Like God's plan for our salvation, this story is one of relational reconciliation. In the end, Erin's belief of Elizabeth being like winning the lottery was so much larger than event that.... the beauty of it was everybody recieved the fruits of this reunion.
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