Our Little Starfish!

We have officially become the proud Grandparents of a bouncing baby boy. He is 21 months old and is currently living in northern China about 150 miles north of the Korean boarder. We will get to meet him possibly as soon as July! And we are very blessed and excited to welcome him into our family!

God truly loves him very much and has an AMAZING plan for his life. How do I know? Because he looked down from heaven and chose him to be our daughter and son-in-law's son. I don't care how biased I am. They are just amazing parents with godly character and a vision for eternal goals.

You can see his adorable picture on her adoption blog: www.our-china-doll.blogspot.com. She has had to change the name of her adoption blog from "Our China Doll" to "Our China (G.I. Joe) Doll"!

One day while pondering the thought of this precious child the thought of the Story of the Starfish came to my mind. I was delighted when the first photo I saw of him had stars all over the wall behind him! Coincidence??

In case you don't remember the story, here it is:

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a boy going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the boy continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the him he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The boy looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"