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Psalm. Psalm chapter 139 verse 14

I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well.

So, in a way that I didn't see coming, I don't think my wife Heather saw it coming.

In fact, I know she didn't see it coming.

None of us and our family saw coming.

God led us after four children to adopt number five and specifically to

pursue international adoption and to adopt number five from China.

Now for months and months we didn't know if this child would be a boy or a girl or how young or old they might be and so we

kind of just had this this child out and we were praying for this child and we didn't want to keep calling this child, like it or, you know, this child we're going to adopt.

It just felt kind of clunky as we were praying so we came up with we talked

about it as a family said okay what can we name this child we don't know it's gonna be a

boy or girl what can we name this child and the name we came up with was wonderfully made because we

we knew for sure boy or girl age any other factors that there might be that this child is wonderfully made by God.

And so yeah, for months we've just been praying for wonderfully made and then we got a then we got a a picture and a face and

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