A Little Says A Lot

Annie and I had just finished an email and we were about to hit SEND when the song on the computer smoothly sounded out "A little says a lot when writing from across the world."  It would have seemed so average on any other average day.  However, that evening, we were sending our first ever email message to our daughter Kennedy, who's waiting for us in China.  We had just spent about an hour writing and rewriting just the right words to say what we wanted to say, in a way that could translate clearly into Chinese.  We initially wrote a much longer message than we eventually sent.  We realized that we were working on an overwhelming message with, ultimately, life changing impact for both sender and receiver.  We were so nervous about getting it just right that we found that the best way to say the most, was to be brief.  We had whittled our email down to a couple of paragraphs and converted it to acceptable Chinese, when "Disappearing World" by Fair came on.  Annie's eyes got really big and she just looked at me in disbelief.  I heard it but didn't really process it at first.  We talked about how timely and cool that was, considering what we are about to do.  Seriously, how can a world this big, be so small?  Thank you RadioU, for being at the right place, at the right time.

After listening to the song, we sent the message.  Now we are waiting on pins and needles for a reply.  Will she be nervous, like we were?  Will she know what to say?  Will she write in Chinese and translate online, like we did?  What will she want to know about us?  Is she as anxious to meet us as we are to meet her?

This strikes me as another in a growing list of "God things" that have become associated with this adoption process.  I can't wait to see what happens next.