Iron Will

The other day we watched a movie that was from 1994 called Iron Will. Its one of those inspirational stories about a 17 year old boy who wins a dog sled race to save his families farm. Its really a good movie. As the story unfolds, the country unknown to Will learns of him through a newspaper reporter. The country begins to look to the young boy as a hero. One scene really impressed me. He is coming close to the end of the race that no one expected him to survive the first day of. He comes through a small town in Minnesota and the townspeople are lined up on the small main street of town and are cheering him with all sorts of fanfare. American flags are everywhere, bands are playing and people are everywhere cheering him. He is told of all that the nation has know of him for weeks and he is amazed. He is encouraged and he goes on. That reminded me of how God has encourages us during this giant project of adoption we have going. It seems like whenever the obstacles become too large, whenever our courage waivers, whenever we cant see our way through, whenever we think there are too many tickets to sell, too many forms to copy and mail in, too many people to ask for donations for the auction, something small hits and we go on. Like yesterday. I emailed a sports talk show I have listened to for years, and within a few hours the host graciously emailed back telling us how he would be helping, or like today when some friends went door to door selling tickets and one lady bought 2 tickets but then donated an extra $10 just to help our cause. Its all of these little things that really helps us to keep on working. To not give up.

God is an ontime God isnt he! He knows when his kids need some encouragement.