C.A.R.A. and the Book of Life

A few days ago, we received a PDF document from the Central Adoption Resources Agency (CARA) in India. Their website states: Its mandate is to find a loving and caring family for every ophan/destitute/surrendered child in the country. That night, while lying in bed, I was struck by the strangeness yet odd excitement of seeing our names and address printed on some document created halfway around the world. Our names on that document meant that the country of India did not object to our adopting our little S. In other words, at the right time, we will be connected and be able to be one family. I laid in bed and thought about the amazing reality of our names on that document. So far away. Just for us. Simply amazing. And then it struck me. India is not the furthest away that our name has been written down somewhere. Further even than China when we adopted Elijah. Our name has been written down in the Book of Life. I have no concept where that book is kept. Obviously under the care of God, and obviously not in some agency on the face of this earth. If our name being written on a document in India is amazing, then the only way to describe our name being written in the Book of Life is "awesome". At just the right time, our name there means that our own adoption will be complete. Our Heavenly family will be connected. The Creator of the universe has no objections to us joining Him for eternity. Whoa! God has found us as orphaned/destitute children and has paid a much higher price than our adoption of S. He gave it all. For me. For my family. It boggles the mind.