It's a Small World After All

This is an amazing story: Once upon a time there was a little boy born in Hong Kong. He went to live at an orphanage, where he was cared for by a woman from South Africa. One year later, a couple from America flew to Hong Kong to adopt him. They named him Benjamin. Five years later, they moved to South Africa. Six months later, the South African woman in Hong Kong moved back to South Africa. One week later, they all met up for an amazing reunion. And they all lived happily ever after (except that one of them had to fly back to Cape Town, while the other two stayed in Pretoria).

Loretta came over today. This is the woman who changed our son's nappies, got up in the middle of the night with him, fed him, clothed him, bathed him, and was in a very real sense his first "mommy" for the first year of his life. When we flew to Hong Kong to adopt our son, we realised that he had received the best of care from Loretta, and we had nothing but thanks for her. I am SO grateful that we got to be with her today. What an incredible blessing (and I think she was pleased to see how much Ben had grown)!

Who knew that Ben's first caregiver would be a South African, that we would later move to South Africa, that we would ever see Loretta again??? God is so awesome! You know what else? Today is a public holiday in South Africa... "Family Day." How appropriate.