Carmen and Isamar...

Carmen and Isamar
I have often heard it said that when the internet was invented, the world became a bit smaller. I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. The internet has allowed me to become friends with people from all over the United States and to share life’s journey with people who I may never meet in person until we get to Heaven.

Today, I am grateful to have this wonderful technology because it has the power to bring God's people together for a very specific common goal. As internet Sisters we have already seen God’s powerful answers to some amazing prayers.

Today I’d like to ask one more time for your deep prayers for a dear friend of mine who is in the midst of a very major struggle.

Angie and her husband are in the very final stages of an adoption of two beautiful little girls named Carmen and Isamar from Nicaragua. Angie has a ministry that travels often to Nicaragua and works with orphan children. Many years ago Angie began visiting this particular orphanage and over time the Lord laid it on her family’s heart to bring Carmen and Isamar into their family. Carmen and Isamar are half sisters who share the same mother but have different fathers.

Angie and her husband have spent countless months (and years) going through the legal process of bringing their daughters home. In theory, Angie should be travelling to Nicaragua next month to finally hold her little girls, pack their bags and bring them back to the States. HOWEVER, the Lord has allowed a curve ball to be thrown into the mix.

Just a few months ago, after years and years of no contact, A man claiming to be Isamar’s father heard the news that his 'daughter' (whom he had surrendered to the orphanage years earlier) was going to be adopted and would be moving to the USA. Upon hearing this news, he entered the orphanage and demanded he be given full custody of his ‘daughter’.

Obviously, Angie and her husband were devastated. They are now in the midst of waiting to hear the results of a DNA paternity test which will likely determine whether or not they are able to bring Isamar home.

Carmen and Isamar are also devastated. After all these years, they have dreamt of nothing more than one day getting out of this orphanage and being adopted into a family that has already shown them more love than they’ve ever known. Now, they are being told that one of them will be able to move, but the other one may have to stay and will go to live with her birthfather who left her alone and abandoned her entire life. Isamar does not want to be with her birthfather, yet he now threatens to keep her from a life of happiness and love.

I am specifically asking for prayer today because the DNA results were supposed to be back yesterday and Angie is now getting mixed messages from Lawyers who are “having trouble locating” the results.

I can only equate this pain to the pain I would have over losing a child. In every single way, Isamar is Angie’s daughter. She is as much a part of Angie as any child could be. To Isamar, Angie is the only mother she has ever had. To face the fact that Isamar may not come home is truly unbearable.

Please, please pray for Carmen and Isamar. Pray for their hearts upon hearing the final verdict. The pain that could come from being separated is immense.

Please pray for Angie and her husband as they await these results. They have trusted God through this entire situation and yet their bodies and hearts are very tired now. Please pray for their peace and courage.

Above all, please pray that God’s will be done. We know full well that our plans are not always His plans. We want nothing more than His will to be done. We pray that Satan would be bound up and that God would reign in this situation.

Thank you Sisters (and Brothers) for standing alongside of this family with me. We serve an awesome God and I am forever grateful for that.