As a little girl about 7, Rachel Schaeffer went to a garage sale in her apartment complex. She neither liked dolls nor owned one. But this day she bought a baby outfit—a soft, pale blue baby boy’s sweatsuit.

“I always thought I’d have two girls like my mom did,” Rachel says. “But here I was buying for a boy. I kept that outfit for years.”

At 24, Rachel married. Four years later, she miscarried. For many years after, she tried, unsuccessfully, to get pregnant again. Eventually she and then husband Jim began working with an adoption agency, Love the Children.

Rachel started taking walks under the full moon, praying to the moon and asking it to bring her a baby. “I asked for many, many moons. Finally, the moon answered.”

Jim returned from work one day “with a photo of the sweetest baby ever.” He came from Korea. In Korea, the family name is written first. The name of this baby: Moon, Min Kyoo.

The couple picked up their new 8 month old at JFK airport. “We were over the moon excited and even more thrilled the day he came home.” He arrived in a soft, pale blue sweat suit—”identical to the one I’d bought with my allowance money as a little girl.”

Rachel hugged her new son close, then held him in front of her so their eyes could meet.  He placed his hands on her cheeks and kept him there. “His eyes seemed to say: ‘Oh, it’s you. I remember you!’ It was one of the most magical moments of my life.”

Moon, Min Kyoo is now Luke Min Joseph Schaeffer. Rachel has told him the story of “Moonie” since he was a baby—for the past 12 years. “He has always loved it!”

Every year, on the anniversary of the day Luke “came home,” he and his mom look at the photo album of his arrival in New York City. The cover of the album features a painting of a baby boy cradled in the moon.

Sarasota-based Rachel hosts an Internet talk show, On the Red Couch. She interviews people doing what she considers inspiring work. Last year I was honored to be a guest on her show, a clip that also was saved on YouTube.

Readers of my book Godsigns know I began collecting full moons after my cancer challenge.  I feel blessed to continue admiring them from the earth’s perspective. I view each one as a balloon floating in heaven in celebration of my survival. So you can see why I love this story.

Rachel says, “Whenever I can, I walk outside at night and look up at the moon. I will never forget the immeasurable gift I received or the miraculous power of the moon.”

(Whether you receive signs from the heavens or closer to home, please share them with me.)