Author of Good

We need to file some paperwork and 

we get to spend a week with our kids! 

But we needed our passports stamped 

with the visas before we could leave.

It seemed that the USPS lost our Visa Application.

Excuse me?!?! WHAT?!?!

 Money order and all.... 

They admitted there was a mistake.

That they did not know where our package was.

Tracking stopped after they attempted to deliver it 

to a government office on a saturday and it had been closed.

Um....DUH!!!!!

The package had gone off the radar.

They told us they did not know where the package was 

and that we would need to call the post office that is was last at.

After spending several hours on the phone 

trying to figure out where the package was.... 


I went to get the mail and..

There was a package from the DRC Embassy. 

Our passports were in our mailbox,

 and they were stamped with our Visas!!  

WHAT?!?!?!

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!


I realized at that moment ... 

I need to be praising God for every single thing 

that goes good with our adoption.  

But then it hit me, not just in our adoption... 

Every.Single.Thing. that is good in my life. 

He is the author of Good... 

It is only by his Grace and power 

that any good things happens. 

The little things and the big things. 


For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 100:5


Give thanks to the Lord, 

for he is good and his love endures forever.

Psalm 136:1

 If I had not known that the package went missing 

(which by the way... my mom says was carried by an angel :) 

I would of have been happy when they arrived.

But I know my heart would not have been 

rejoicing and praising God in the same way.  

I would have just thought... oh great they are here!

Instead... When they came... I cried!

I praised God for the way he worked to get the package 

to the DRC embassy and how quickly they had sent them back to us!

(1 week total turn around)

My heart poured out to him.

I thanked him for the way he was working.  

But it made me stop and think...

Why do I not do this more 

in the everyday of my life?


Every good and perfect gift is from above, 

coming down form the Father of the heavenly lights, 

who does not change like shifting shadows.  

James 1:17

Why do I not praise him for each and every good thing 

that he works in my life?


The blessing of my life overflow... 

Things like..

I get to wake up in the morning.

That He gives me every breath I take.

That I have a heavenly father that loves me.

That He is teaching me more about who he is.

That he placed me in this exact place and time for a reason.

That I have a husband that loves the Lord

and is leading our family to seek our Heavenly Father!   


That I have two boys that love God and others.

That I have two children in the DRC!

That they are mine and 

God is working all things for His good 

and that he will bring them home in his perfect time.

That I get to go and be with them for a week.


That I have loving family.

and friends that support me.

That I have a community in the body of Christ.

It is a blessing that God has opened my eyes.

and has awakened me to a new understanding of who He is!

That through all this he has birthed a new passion in my life 

It is a blessing that he allows me 

to be a part of building his kingdom.

That I an not perfect... 

but he loves me anyway.

That he is changing me and making me more like Him!
That He has set me free!

Just like any earthly father 

wants to give good things to his daughter.

We are his beloved sons and daughters 

and he loves us!

He wants to pour out his love on us!

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, 

that we should be called children of God!  

And that is what we are!

1 John 3:1

We each have a story.

This is our family's story.

Our story has definitely had many twists and turns.


Even as we travel to go and see our kids, 

the story is not going exactly how I thought it would.

Storms and Waves keep hitting us.

Bad weather, flight delays, missed flights, long lines, 

and eventually, ending up stuck 

in another city where our kids are not.


I don't get it.

But what I do know is that 

I do not need to understand all the details 

or WHY every single thing happens in our story.

God's stories are ALWAYS 

about Love and Redemption.

Yes there is death in each story, because 

the one who loves you more than anything died for you 

and He is asking you to now lay down your life 

and follow Him.

But there is also more Grace and Love 

than you have ever read in a story before.

He writes all of our stories for our good 

and to glorify Him. 

When we choose to follow Him, 

we can trust in His faithfulness 

and that the ending will always be good.

So while I do not understand everything,

I do understand that, this is our story and

it has already been written!

I trust the one who is writing it into history.

I don't have to know all of the details because,

I know the author and He is good!

Nicole Marie 
Daughter to the King