Subj: Changing destiny
Date: 2/10/03
WARNING: SOME OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS LETTER ARE FICTIONAL, FAIRY TALE THOUGHTS.
Last night I had a dream. I'm surprised I wasn't dreaming about Ice Hockey, having spent the last three days at an awesome tournament with my son. But instead I was having one of those bazaar dreams where places, people and the things you do, like flying, are all so "dream" like. Then in my dream I picked up a newspaper and there was an article that was so much like reality I remember the rest of the dream as if it was reality. It was an article about a little girl who had been adopted, and she looked familiar. Soon I was meeting this little girl, it was Anya. In reality I knew Ana and now it my dream it was a joy to talk with her. She told me she preferred to talk in English now and told me all about her new family. She had three sisters, and was going to school. She was still the child I remembered, yet so changed because of the changes that took place in her life. What a dream! Then I woke up.
On my refrigerator is a picture of Ana. It is attached to the letter Ira wrote me about Ana dying. After Anya's second heart operation we were talking about and praying how we could help her get adopted and out of the facility where she would otherwise spend the rest of here life. Standing in front of my refrigerator I thought, only if... If only time could reverse itself because someone's decision to adopt changed, thus Anya's destiny was changed!
But that is just a fantasy, it only happens in fairy tales. Yet there on my refrigerator were other pictures. Marina, who once was also destined to live her life in the facility where Anya died. She is pictured on a beach in Virginia, all smiles and living a fairy tale reality! And there is a picture of the school boys; I call this my miracle picture. Oleg is reading, the non-walkers are all comfortably seated on a big exercise mat on the floor. They are surrounded by displays of their art work, toys, and books; maps and chalkboards hang on the walls. All a sign of the changes made in their lives, their destines changing from day in and day out of nothingness to stimulation, productivity, and developed abilities. They were destined to be illiterate, to be considered only a burden, just be warehoused; but their destiny was changed.
What made the difference? God made the difference according to His sovereign will, and He did it through people. People who, in considering an opportunity, did not just think about how it will affect them: their finances, their family's life, their loses; but how it would affect a child. In all their thinking they consider how God had blessed them and might use them. And in light of that, they considered their responsibility toward changing the destiny a child.
God did make a difference in Anya's life. After her operation she was healed and able to walk and talk for a short while on earth. Her destiny was a new home in heaven. But there are many other children still with us here on this earth. Children still waiting for their destiny to change.
Please pray for all the children of the world who suffer in their current destiny. Pray for myself and three others who will be traveling to Ukraine Feb 17th to see how we might be used to change destinies. And pray how God might use you to change the destiny of a child.
Lynnise