Evie, Falling for Her

Evelyn Han Huizhen, "Evie"
Heartbridge Healing Home

Beijing, China

Home Province: Jiangsu

 

On February 8, my friend Kelly, advocated on FB for a little girl that had been posted on the Love Without Boundaries blog.  I see lots of lots of photos of little ones who need families, sometimes stopping to pray or comment.  Honestly though, mostly, I scroll on by.

This face was different. 

Following a link to the blog post, I read about a little girl who's had a hard fight.  The author said she needed a family,

and I loved her before reading it to the end. 

If we wanted more information, there was an email.  Scrolling down, every comment was a desire for her file.  I sent the link to Mark, asking him

if she could be ours. 

He...we...wanted more information, so we sent her file to our phenomenal Lifeline mentor, Andrea.  She told me it would be an enormous long-shot, but that they would pursue her file with the CCWA.   Our agency has partnership orphanages though, and those would be our best shot for a match.  Unfortunately, Chinese New Year was beginning and all government agencies in China close for over a week.  We were called to wait.  The next day, we celebrated the holiday with some of our favorite adoptive friends.  I showed "Jenny's" picture on my cell phone,

already in love, asking for prayer for a miracle. 

For the next week, I tried hard not to go back to that post, to her picture,

but when you are in love, reason goes out the window.

The following Sunday, I got a call from Andrea at 8AM.  They'd found her.  I heard, "You aren't going to believe this."  The miracle?  Somehow among all the little ones in orphanages in China, she was on the Lifeline special focus list.  Not a part of a partner orphanage, but somehow Lifeline's. 

Scarcely taking it in, with tears rolling down my cheeks, I heard the next miracle.  "She is Hildie."

This picture of "Hildie" had been posted on the LL list.  She was one of three children that we had asked about, but had not connected as being "Jenny".  I knew instantly that she was on hold by another family, and that a long line of families were on her "interested list". 

 

She'd been found, but was out of our reach. 

 

Andrea told us that she was sending her file to us anyway and that we should have a doctor review it.  She told me to guard my heart, but that she felt it was clear that

 

God had moved a mountain and was up to something. 

 

As it turned out the person who wrote that first blog post, really shouldn't have.  Technically, "Jenny" had a home.  She was on hold and had a list of families wanting her.  The miracle is that she wrote that post anyway, and it caught my eye. 

 

Indeed God was up to much on her behalf. 

More of her story to come...

Read part II, here.