How's that going to work?!

Somebody asked me recently how I thought another adoption would work in our family; how our existing children would cope etc. It's the kind of question people asked us before we adopted for the first time, and not unreasonable really. (In fact, it's the sort of thing I ask myself when we're having a bad day!) But I had to admit to this person & to the others listening that I had absolutely no idea how it would work, and that's the honest truth. Humanly speaking it's probably quite mad!
But this morning I woke thinking about the 3 women on their way to the tomb to anoint Jesus' body. On the way they discussed, "who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" When we think of a stone, we perhaps think of something quite small, but this would have been a huge boulder, blocking the entrance of the tomb. Ridiculous to think of 3 women attempting to move it, & at that time of day they would be unlikely to find big strong helpers! So how were they going to get in to anoint Jesus? I guess they had absolutely no idea either!
So I wondered, why did they go? Why didn't they just stay at home? Well good job they didn't just stay at home, because when they got to the tomb, they discovered God had already been at work and the stone had been removed!
Sometimes, because we have no idea how something could work out, we don't bother to try.
But, if like these women, we move forward in faith, we often find that God has already gone ahead of us and been at work in ways we could never imagine!

Happy Easter!