Part 3 of " a peek into our journey"

During the first year of our marriage, Jess agreed to go to Haiti to visit a friend of mine, and help with some construction work as well. Something happened as he was standing there along that mountain trail....
God spoke into his heart in a quiet voice, and he embraced the thought. "I think our future may include living in Haiti someday".
The next ten years bring children, through adoption and by birth.
They bring  long hard days at a little grocery store, serving people in our community.
They include 4 years of  the heart labor of a Haitian adoption, trips to Haiti, and finally the laying down of the dream, the relinquishing of our precious baby girl to someone else to raise her for life (and she is in a beautiful family) and going through the grief of what feels like a death.
These years include lots of hard work, personal and as a family, learning where our priorities are and how to love our children more.
These years bring another loss ... and grief as we watch a family member suffer a stroke and through that, God brought us to another level of responsibility.
The years bring a new realization that this house we have, our business, and our money; it isn't ours and we are only stewards. This is one of the Key factors in a series of changes we began to make in our family. And these changes directly impacted our journey.
The years brought continual reminders (and it was a motto) that "he who is faithful in little, will be faithful in much".

Soon after we changed our lifestyle and focus, Jess made two statments about things he felt would happen before we were asked to move to Haiti. They were huge things... and almost felt impossible.

The first thing happened and we waited.
Big thing #2 happened 3 days before we headed to Lancaster to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We wanted to attend a Haiti Benefit Auction for an hour or 2, and just spend time together. Sat morning, as we were sitting down to breakfast in the common dining area at our B&B, we were joined by another couple. Through small talk we found out they were headed to the auction too, to represent a mission there at a booth. Of course, Haiti was soon the subject of interest as we talked about both of our trips there. At one point, they said "have you ever considered living in Haiti??"  Considered? Prayed? Longed? Dreamed? YES YES YES and YES:) but of course we didn't say ALL those things. We simply said "yes, we would love to live in Haiti but we know it will happen when God wills".

They asked us to meet them at their booth, and returned to their room.
We did too, but something in our hearts were very sure something significant had just happened. This wasn't just casual question or happenstance meeting.