Two years ago, a friend asked me to share a Facebook post. She’s involved with an organization that connects orphans to host families in the U.S. for four weeks. This is for cultural exchange opportunities as well as raising awareness about adoption possibilities.

So I shared it. It was, after all, just a share.

It turns out that a college friend of mine had been praying about maybe adopting a teenager. Hosting might be a better, less permanent step. The time wasn’t right to host that year, but for her and her husband, hosting a brother and sister from Colombia last year was the right time. After the visit, God put the permanent step on their hearts. Because my friends are not allowed contact with C. and K. (the teenagers) right now, they have no idea that their forever family is raising money and working hard on paperwork to complete the adoption. Hopefully soon.

My friend recently reached out to share: “Thank you! You’re really why we’re on this journey. … You posted … two summers ago for a friend and got the ball rolling.”

Younger me might have taken the bulk of the credit. But older and vaguely wiser me replied, “You’re SO welcome. I am so thrilled for you two. Isn’t it amazing how God works?”

See, all I did was click “share” on a post—easy peasy. But look what God did with that! He took strangers who live over 2,700 miles apart and is bringing them together, keeping his promise that he “sets the lonely in families” (Psalm 68:6)

That made me think about ways God works through sharers in the Bible.

When Jesus was first starting his public ministry, a man named Philip realized this was the Messiah they had been waiting for. So he shared the news with his friend Nathanael, who was surprised that the supposed Savior came from a rinky-dink town called Nazareth. Philip just said, “Come and see.” It was, after all, just a share. Look what God did with that! Nathanael became one of Jesus’ 12 disciples and spent the rest of his life telling others about the Messiah. (He even healed people and cast out demons in Jesus’ name. Whoa!)

In the book of John, we hear of a boy who offered his lunch of five small loaves of bread and two small fish. It was, after all, just a share. Look what God did with that! Jesus took that food, thanked God for it—and then fed thousands of people. (There were even leftovers!)

It also makes me think about the sharers in our current society.

The ones who share a word of encouragement when you’re feeling worn down. The ones who share a meal when you’re stretched thin because of health issues. The ones who share a hug with the hurting, who share their time while a loved one is in surgery, who share their prayers with the broken. These are, after all, just shares. But look what God does with that! People feel more loved and less lonely; their burdens become lighter as other people help carry them.

But that’s just the ways we can see. A man named Paul reminds us that we can’t even begin to fathom the way God might work when we share a post, a passage, a prayer, our presence—and that God gets all the credit: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen” (Ephesians 3:20,21).

Linda Buxa is a writer and speaker who isn’t afraid to share that she is older. Vaguely wiser, now that might be a stretch …