goat man

now, there are those of you out there who have already heard this story, but it bears repeating. gretchen was here visiting with shannon. we were heading out to the market to buy some of our bulk product. we 'happened' to decide to take three of our oldest kids with us. one of whom (angela) is in the process of being adopted but we were having a hang up because we could not find her birth mom. we have to get documents signed by the birth parents, so we have to keep track of them. well, as we were driving steven asked me if we could buy a goat. and i told him that we could look for goats, but when he gets to the states he won't eat goat anymore. (note: he just so 'happened' to start us all thinking about goats.) so, i went to change money with jean nathan and everyone else sat in the back of the truck and watched the life of the market flowing around them. believe me, there's a lot to see. when i got back the kids told me they had seen a man with goats. also, steven said that angela had seen a man who lived near her mom. we have no idea where angela's mom lives and she's only 8 so she couldn't really tell us. anyhow, as we're talking along comes the man with three goats and the kids point him out to me. but not only is he a seller of goats, he also 'happens' to be the man who lives by angela's mom! so jean nathan calls the man over and asks him if he knows angela. he says no. but jean nathan keeps asking questions and sure enough, he knows her mom and where she lives! so i give j.n. some money and off he goes with goat man to find her mom!

a lot of "just-so-happens," hey? isn't our God great?