The Ladybug of Peace

While I'm still thinking about it, I wanted to share something that happened on Dec 7th.  The week of Thanksgiving was a VERY rough emotional week for me. Truly, what you read on this blog does not do it justice. The week following was slightly better, but still far from easy. So it was in a state of emotional angst that I found myself sitting in church the morning of Dec 7th. As I sat there struggling with my fears and anxieties, my loving Father sent me a sign in the form of a little red ladybug. For those who don't know, the ladybug has been adopted by the Chinese adoption community as a good luck charm, and it is said that people see ladybugs before referrals are sent from China. So there I sat in my dark little corner, half-heartedly listening to the songs and words around me, telling God all about how I was feeling. All of a sudden, I realized that I was staring at a ladybug slowly wondering her way around the collar of the man sitting in front of me. A ladybug, in the cold of December, in a church building inches from me. As I looked at it, I knew it was a sign sent for me. And in a moment I knew it's message. No, there was no voice, but I felt the whisper to my soul. It was simply "PEACE".