“For this child I have prayed, and the Lord has granted me the desires of my heart.”      (I Samuel 1:27)

There have been moments before in my life when God has answered my prayers in miraculous ways, so that there is simply no denying that He was always in control of the situations. The only possible response from me is utter thankfulness and a greater understanding of God’s loving care for me.

One of our grandsons has been “ours” for almost six years, but legally he was only the child of our son’s wife. We first met him when he was three months old, and he immediately wiggled his way into our hearts! He has been part of all our family events for so long that the legality of his standing with our family had become a non-issue. In our hearts, our son was the little boy’s daddy and we were his grandma and grandpa!

My husband and I have been petitioning God for years to work out the details for Jeremiah’s legal adoption into our family. The biological father has never been involved in his son’s life, but he had refused to sign documents to allow the adoption. We received word yesterday that those documents have been signed! The joy we are feeling defies words. We can only echo Hannah’s prayer, “For this child I have prayed, and the Lord has granted me the desires of my heart.”