God’s Chuckle over Gray Hair
Sandra Moats Associate Pastor New Hope Assembly of God Pinehurst, ID
Have you ever made a pledge to God? A pledge is
an earnest promise.
Most Christians have at one time or another made
some kind of a pledge
with God. (Nu 30:2). Five years ago I made a
pledge to God. Through
the walking out of this pledge God has again
reminded me of His gentle
humor. I had just entered my sixty’s and we had
just adopted our
fifth child. We had four grown biological
children, eleven
grandchildren and now five children at home.
Eight years before I made a promise to God
as I held a little
dying boy in China. I promised God I would help
every child that He
would bring to me. We adopted three directly
from China and now Asian
children were coming after they had been adopted
by another family and
that adoption was not working out. Sure enough
God was bringing them
to us!
When the fifth child arrived at our home my
hair was beginning to
gray. My mother and grandmother not only had
gray hair by my age, but
theirs was white! It bothered me that our
children might feel they
had an old mom although I tell my kids you
cannot call me old until I
am eighty. For some reason it was important to
me that they would not
have a gray haired mom when they came home. I
had a deep, strong
feeling inside that there might be more children
coming to our home. I
made a pledge to God. I said, “My heart is open
to love them and be
their mom, but would You please keep my hair
from going completely
gray until the last one is home.” The next
year my hair grayed and
white hair was becoming visible around the
edges. Then something
unusual happened. An agency called and there
was a little boy who
needed a new family. My hair turned medium
auburn again and the gray
was hard to find. Sure enough little Luke came
home.
After he was home my hair began to gray
again. We got call from
another agency that had a boy who needed a new
family. My hair turned
back again and Peter came home. By then I was
beginning to get the
picture of what was happening. Each time it
would begin to gray I
thought, “This is it! Our family is complete.”
Some of my
friends made comments about my lack of gray
hair. A couple of years
ago I began to share with them about the pledge
I made with God and
His faithfulness and humor in walking this
pledge out.
My hair grayed again after Peter came, that
was until a family
contacted us that their adoption was not working
and they needed to
find a new family. After Mercy came home I
thought, “Surely we are
finished adopting Lord”. My hair was turning
gray rather nicely and I
was enjoying it.
That was until we got a call from an agency
asking us to open our
home to another child and sure enough my hair
turned back to auburn.
And, God even brought us another child after
Patience before my hair
could even begin to gray again! We had a good
laugh about that one!
“Surely we are through now Lord!” I prayed.
My hair grayed for a few months and then we
got another call from
an agency about a boy that needed a new family.
My hair turned back
again and we brought home another son. With our
last son we were out
of the car space and tight in our house we call
the ark. We got a
large van and thought, surely our quiver is full
now Lord! When I get
to Heaven we are going to have a laugh together
about this one! (Ps
126:2).
My hair is graying again. We will see…
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