Memee- A little girl and God's miracle!

Memee* is a special little girl!
Abandoned by her family but not by God! He clearly has His hand on her precious life!

Here is Meme the day we went to bring her to our Children's Home.

 

First she had to have a bath.

 

She was very scared... as you can well imagine...

 

 Memee is so needy. She requires supervision and needs one on one care. She needs a small family.
I started to pray, “Lord, Memee needs a family. Would you please provide this little girl with a family who will love her and help her to be all that you intended her to be.”

So I presented my list to God -all that I believed Memee would need. 
 
Top of that list -two doting parents - with only one other little one in their care. A girl would be great but not a necessity!!

Why? Because Memee needs to feel special and because a new mum and dad would need to keep a close eye on her and have a special understanding of special little girls!

One or both of her parents would need to speak Thai.

If they spoke English as well that would be good!

It would be perfect if one is a school teacher.

Memee's mum and dad would need to understand the needs of ‘adopted’ children, or at least children who grow up in a family other than their birth family.

Oh, and please Lord, could they be Christians - we would love them to be of like minded faith.

So I advertised in our newsletter.

Not one reply.
 
Then the doubts - and questions - came.

How would we find the right family? What authority do we have to find an adoptive/foster family for this precious child?

How would we get her grandfather’s permission to place her into a family?

His phone number was lost and we actually didn't know where he is! How could we track him down?

One day I was praying and God spoke quietly to my heart that I was not believing that He would find a family for Memee.

 A couple of days later we went out to a restaurant in Chiang Mai. I was very tired and not feeling like talking to anyone. Actually I was feeling like quite a failure.

We had had our long term helper leave, 42 (forty two!) referrals of children that we couldn’t help had recently come in, and I couldn’t find this little girl a home!

A man at the next table smiled and said hello. He was American. Feeling as I was, I simply didn’t want to go through the polite talk, and all the other usual questions one asks when you meet a stranger here.

I actually whispered “Lord, I am tired, defeated. I don’t even want to be nice to the man. I know that is not pleasing to you. Please help me.”

The man's wife smiled at me and I returned her smile and said “hello”. She was chatty and friendly and thankfully didn’t ask us very many questions at all! After a while she slid along the bench seat, stood up and came and sat with us.

Her husband is “oriental looking” and I wondered about his background, as he had no accent so clearly wasn’t Thai.  

After a long conversation she mentioned that they would love to adopt another child.

I asked “Oh, you want a boy?”

And she replied, “No, we’d love a little girl. One who is about six years old would be perfect.”

Can I refer you back to my prayer to the Lord?!

This woman is American and speaks only English.

Her husband IS Thai and yet spoke only English for the first 12 years of his life. His English is perfect AND he speaks fluent Thai!

She is a teacher and runs a school!!!

He is home a lot and also travels.

I gave them my business card and went home incredulous at how this was all panning out!

Then an email arrived from this couple saying,  'We have really committed this to the Lord and believe He would have this little girl join our family!'

Even though this is clearly from the hand of God – the story gets better and more amazing!

A few days before our senior staff member left, I asked her to come into the office, showed her Memee’s file and said, “Why don’t we have contact details of the grandfather? We have no way of contacting him.”

So she searched for the district in which Memee was born, rang the “town hall” and spoke to a man who knows “District 10” and asked him if he knew the village leader (who is always an important man).

He said, “Yes, I have his phone number!”

So he called the village leader and asked if he remembered a little girl being given to a children’s home nearly two years ago.

He did.

Did he remember who the grandfather was?

He did.

Could he talk to him about Memee being adopted?

He could.

Subsequently we have been informed that Grandfather has given his consent for Memee's adoption, with the small proviso of his being able to see his precious granddaughter one more time.

He also needed to contact some cousins to see if there was any objection. 

Grandfather managed to contact the relatives and there was no objection lodged so he has consented to Memee being adopted!

Bless God and thank you to all who prayed.
 

A miracle was had that day for one of God’s precious children.

And did I mention… they have a beautiful 2 year old Thai girl whom they have raised since birth?!

We are handing over this precious child to her new family. It is of course with mixed emotions but we dearly want the 'best' for this little girl.

On “gotcha day” (the day Memee left with her new family), Memee and her new sister Rosie sat side by side in their little car seats, drinking from their sippy cups and talking secret little girls talk, while their parents beamed in the front seat.

We all marvel at God’s hand in this little girl's life.

In her new bedroom with her little sister.

 

Sisters on bikes 

 

 

 

My first visit with Memee after she had gone to her new family. It was a very wonderful reunion!

 

 And...she has started ballet lessons!

 

Until next time,

with love,

Sam.

Post script from Memee's new Mum...

Isn't it weird how the Lord works??? After leaving the restraunt that night her name just kept playing in my head. When I mentioned it to Rory* he said he couldn't get the name out of his head either! It was like the Lord was NOT going to let this one get by us.  We prayed right away and then I ran to email you.  I had no idea what would happen, but I knew we had to met this girl. 

Three months later and it's like she has always been with us!  I cried at her first ballet lesson, and Rory beams with pride as she yells "Daddy watch me!!!!" during swimming lessons.  We can't ever thank you and Allan enough for making our little family complete!
*Name changed to maintain privacy.