Jennifer and Tom Doering of Wisconsin
were already the parents of three boys, but they wanted to adopt another
child.
Miles away in Washington State, Nicole
and Scott Rainsberry were also looking to add to their family of five.
Both families, strangers to one another,
were willing to adopt children with special needs. Each family ended up
adopting a little child from China.
The Doerings adopted
a little girl that they named Audrey in July, 2007. She
had a heart condition.
The
Rainsberrys adopted a little girl in August, 2007. They named her
Gracie. She also had a heart condition.
Both little girls had to undergo heart
surgery. Both appear to be doing very well now.
Last month and as a Christmas present, Jennifer conducted
some research about her daughter Audrey’s past. With the help of a
researcher in China, she came across a photo of her daughter with her
Chinese foster mother. Sitting beside Audrey was another Audrey! At
least it appeared that way. The little girl sitting beside Audrey
looked identical to her! Jennifer, with the help of Facebook, found
Nicole and the other little girl that looked like Audrey. It was
Gracie.
On Wednesday,
January 11, 2017, the girls were re-united on ABC’s Good Morning America
TV program. They looked identical! Oh, it was more than their matching
outfits – including their similar eyeglasses; that was all planned! But
everything about them looked identical! And DNA tests confirm, they
are identical – identical twins.
So after more
than 9 years, these identical twins were reunited. It was a joyous and
tearful reunion.
GMA Host
Michael Strahan, a father of twin girls himself, asked, “How are you two
feeling right now? Your first impressions of seeing your sister?”
“Excited.
Happy. It’s really overwhelming,” replied Gracie, with Audrey affirming
her answer while wiping away her tears.
Strahan
addressed Audrey: “Audrey, we said you have three older brothers. How
does it feel to have your sister now?”
Audrey
replied, “It felt like there was somebody
missing… Now it’s complete.”
A government
official was traveling back home to Ethiopia from Jerusalem, where he
had been to worship God. As he rode along in his chariot, he was
studying his Bible. He was reading from the prophet Isaiah. He
couldn’t figure out about whom the prophet was writing. Something was
missing.
The Lord sent
Philip to him. The Ethiopian invited Philip into his chariot to study
with him. “Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and
told him the good news about Jesus” (Acts 8:35).
“Now as they
went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, ‘See,
here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?’” (Acts 8:36).
They both got out of the chariot, entered the pool of water, and Philip
baptized the Ethiopian.
The Spirit of
the Lord suddenly took Philip away. And what did the Ethiopian do? “He
went on his way rejoicing” (Acts 8:39). Why? Because something
(Someone) was missing; now it was complete. He had found the
Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Savior.
It is our sin
that separates us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2), but through Jesus we can be
forgiven of our sins and receive the gift of eternal life (Ephesians
1:7; Romans 6:23).
God will forgive and give eternal life to
those who place their
faith and
trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in
repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the
forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to cleanse from sin
those who continue to walk in the light of His word (1 John 1:7).
We are
“complete” in Him
(Colossians 2:10).
Won’t
YOU
find the One that you’ve been missing by
turning to God through Christ in your trusting obedience?
-- David A.
Sargent
* From “Twins separated at birth find
each other, reunite on live TV.” Good Morning America as viewed on
www.wsbtv.com
of Atlanta, GA.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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