Heaven's Echo

Last night driving home I had a moment that I'll call "heaven's echo."  An echo is not an answer to a question. We speak aloud into space and hear what we said coming back to us. For some reason listening to an echo is comforting. It seems to validate something in us; something that says our voice matters or that our spoken word is heard.  As Christians we know God hears our prayers whether they get answered  in the way we want or not but we strain to hear his voice or feel his presence to know we are on the right path. Sometimes he chooses to answer in an Echo. This is where he takes something we know to be true like scripture we have read and reread many times and repeats it back to us in a significant way.

I was driving home from Indianapolis with my 3 youngest. We were very close to home when a song came on the radio. The song, by Lauren Daigle, talks about trusting in God even when he doesn't move mountains, or part waters. Willow loves to sing along with the radio and since she doesn't know much English, she usually fakes it, (but even with that she sounds good). She seems to love female voices that are full of volume so when this song came on and I turned it up to sing, she also sang her non-English version. We were belting out the chorus "I will trust, I will trust in you," when I felt God's presence saying "Remember?"  I have sung this song hundreds of times in the last six months: days leading up to our adoption, periods of time filled with  problems, delays, discouragement and finally the moments in China when my husband and I were precariously standing on God's word as the doubts swirled around us.  What joy to hear my daughter in her own way repeating my prayers back to me. God was letting me know he had heard everything: every single time I had sung this song or prayerfully whispered it clinging to His promise to be with us and bring us through it.

Heaven's Echo... I knew all of the events in the last few months had mattered to God, but it was so nice to hear it coming back to me over the distance!