Amazing
News!!!!!! Hundreds of prayers and
cryings out to the Lord answered suddenly in His perfect timing in one
afternoon!!!!!!!!!!
This is my sister
Jennifer’s story but her story is intertwined with mine (Debbie’s) so I share
this as OUR story.
For years, I have
seen my sister struggle with longing to find her birth mother.
I have
held her many time while she sobbed and even screamed with the pain of her baby
memories of a mother who walked away from her and the questions of WHY, WHY,
WHY???? She was 2 years old when she last saw her birth mother.
This picture is of
my sister Jennifer with her birth Mum on her second birthday while she was
still in the orphanage before we adopted her.
This week,
Jennifer and her son Billy who is 11, are visiting us here in Ballina and on
Tuesday, Jan.6, 2015, I was on the internet looking for Kings FilAm home in Olongapo so I could show Jennifer because this
was the orphanage that she had been in. And when I did the search, I found the
following:
“OUR SEARCH FOR
JENNIFER NAPOD (which is Jennifer’s birth name):
It felt so surreal to read the whole account of
Jennifer’s birth family and their search for her, and it didn’t take long to
find phone numbers, photos, you tube videos, contact details……of Jen’s birth
family and by midnight that evening, Jen was talking on skype with her sisters
and her birth mother and ALL of us – Jennifer’s birth family, Jennifer, Billy, Paul
and I – were all sobbing. It was so emotional, so overwhelming, SOOOOOO WONDERFUL!!!!
It turns out that Jen’s birth mother has been
looking for her for almost 35 years, even hired private investigators….to no
avail, and she has had numerous reoccurring dreams of Jennifer standing with
outstretched arms reaching out to her. Finally the whole story is unravelling
and the oh so many questions in Jennifer’s heart are being answered and the
tears that are falling now are not bitter but healing.
I can’t tell you how much it has broken my heart
over this last day or so to hear my sister saying to her birth Mum on skype,
“Mama why did you leave me? I have been so lonely for you all these years……”
And both of them sobbing and sobbing as her Mama has shared her life’s story.
The beautiful thing is that Jennifer is soooooo much like her birth Mum and her
sisters. They do the same things, they laugh the same and Jennifer looks like
her Mama…..
The next step is to meet them in person and feel
all that love and family in person! Pray
that this will be able to happen in about March. Jennifer and her two children
(or maybe just Billy if Mariah has to start Uni) are hoping to make it to
Hawaii for her sister’s birthday and for a big family reunion!
Jennifer has even discovered that her birth
mother’s sister lives here in Australia! So close all these years!!
Not only does it melt our hearts (Paul’s and mine)
to have our sister’s birth family as part of our family now and to see Jennifer
connecting so beautifully with all of them, but it makes us cry to see how much
this means to Jennifer’s children. Billy came up to Paul yesterday and hugged
him and said, “I want to say thanks so much Uncle Paul that you and Aunty
Debbie helped us to find Mummy’s Mum and my Grandma.” His sister Mariah, 17 years old, who is in
Sydney, heard the news and went to her Dad almost beside herself saying,
“DAD!!! I HAVE THE MOST AMAZING NEWS!!! I HAVE OTHER COUSINS……I HAVE ANOTHER
GRANDMA!!!!!”
God is our HEALER. And He knows how much healing my
little sister’s heart needs. She has been on a very hard journey and many times
she has refused to listen to Him, but as she told me a couple of days ago
(before we found her birth mother), “God has never let go of me……”
Half the world away, in America, a mother, two
sisters and two brothers are thanking God that their search is over and they
have found their daughter and sister who they have spent years looking for.
And here in our little home in Ballina, is one
beautiful girl whose heart’s questions have finally been answered; whose
jagged emotional wounds because of a
mother who she remembers ‘walking away’, are well on the way now to being
healed; who felt such difficulty before
‘connecting’ with others, is now connecting.
There is still a long journey ahead, still a lot of
hurts to heal…..but GOD keeps continuing the work that He began and HE WILL
COMPLETE IT!!! Praise God!!!
And here is one happy sister – me – because I just
want my sister to be happy.
