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The Power of Words

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Words have an incredible ability to lift, crush, support, hurt, love or heal the heart.  Today, as we went to church, love was delivered in an unusual healing manner.   And in the midst of picking up my children from their class, a sweet Chinese woman began admiring my adopted children after recognizing their shared heritage..... tears began to seep down her face.  She hugged me and thanked me dearly for loving them.   I could feel her soul was so touched by our children as she gazed deeply at them playing.   Adoption,  begins with brokenness and pain  ........becomes redeemed because of a great love.  Not our love.....Christ's LOVE.  We are weak and humbled as we raise children.   My only response was that this is what God calls us to and we simply love them.    Her gracious heart and deep gratitude for adoption warmed my soul for adoption should be a natural part of our family as God adopted us into His.   The story God weaves together is beautifully complex. Then she gave my chi
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Pictures and exciting updates

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      There have been multiple times over the past few months when thoughts have flooded my mind and I have wanted to share. Time has not been on my long list of extras lately.  Where to start....  Huahua celebrated four years home in December.   The day we received her file (almost 5 years ago), the day we said "Yes", the moment we received travel approval, the moment she was carried around the corner in a stale civil affairs building in Chongqing, China (12/16/13) and was placed in my arms and became my daughter is forever.--these are etched as if it was just yesterday.       Christmas celebrations among the sneezes, coughs.  vomit & diarrhea. Thankful we live in a country we have access  medicine, vaccinations, exceptional health care all at the tip of our fingertips.  Next time you wait in a Drs waiting room start to get a little annoyed with the wait, remember there are mamas who walk miles, even days for their children to get a medicine so their child does not die o
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Thankfulness

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Five years ago our family looked much different.  Somewhat stressed after a year of medical trials and multiple surgeries,  but thankful for a successful lengthening of Jackson's femur.  Thankful for our church community, family and friends that held us together during the hard.  Thankful for our access to cutting edge medical procedures that take life altering congenital diagnosis and make them manageable nuances.   We thought it was the end of our trials.....we later would learn it was only the beginning. At the same time......Five years ago in a large orphanage in China sat a little girl with a broken little heart dying. Her lips purple, her fingertips curled over from lack of oxygen.  She was losing her fight to untreated congenital heart disease.... "Tessa" (about 1 year) "Tessa" (about 18 months) But someone had fallen in love and God planted it in her heart to fight for this little girl.  Aunt Katie, (holding her in the black and white photo above) had al
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