When God Winks at You

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“Are you from here?” asked Mavis.

“No, I’m from the Midwest,” said the young woman adding, “I’m actually here on a mission. To find my birth mother.”

There was a pause.

“I know how you must feel,” said Mavis. “A long time ago, I had to give up a little girl for adoption. I didn’t want to…but…”

Another pause.

The young woman looked deeply into Mavis’s eyes.

“Do you…remember her birthday?”

“Yes,” said Mavis cautiously. “October 30th.”

“That’s my birthday,” gasped the young woman.

That’s right! A remarkable “coincidence”--a godwink--had reunited a long-lost mother and daughter. What are the odds of that?

They sat down.

The young woman introduced herself as Cheryl Wallace.

Cheryl explained that for years she had been haunted by the lingering uncertainty of not knowing who her birth mother was and, more important, why her mother had given her up.

In her small midwest town, everyone was discouraging.

“You’re looking for a needle in a haystack,” counseled the town clerk.

“There’s no trace of her,” said others.

Eventually a suggestion from someone who thought she’d once heard that Cheryl’s birth mother had moved to Orange County, California, led her to this time and place.

Even on her most optimistic days, Cheryl never could have forecast such a remarkable outcome--that such uncertainty would end in such certainty, in a manner that only God could have made happen.

And when they confirmed that their wonderful miracle was true--that they were long-lost mother and daughter--they knew that Mother’s Day would never be the same again.