What I Am Most Thankful For Today

"Heal my heart and make it clean

Open up my eyes to the things unseen

Show me how to love like You have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Yours

Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause

As I walk from earth into eternity"

~"Hosanna" Lyrics (Hillsong)

As I reflect on all that I am thankful for, the one thing that I am most thankful for is: broken hearts. It is our broken hearts that saw the need, heard the call, and are now stepping out in faith, and in obedience, to answer the call to adopt. These are some of the (thousands of) images that broke our hearts.

Orphans spending most of their days in cribs like these with only 1 nanny to care for so many children at a time.

The children often lay on wood, or particle board, so conditions are kept more "sanitary". The children really do not have any toys or belongings to call "their own".

 

 

So why would I be most thankful for broken hearts? Those hearts led us down this path. Without them, we would not be on this journey. We would still be making excuses as to why it "didn't make sense" or why it "wasn't a good time" to adopt. Because of our broken hearts, we are constantly, like in every breath breathed constantly, reminded of our TOTAL reliance on our Heavenly Father. We would not be learning all the lessons we are in patience, and for those that know me, this is so hard!  We are reminded to fully trust in His timing and not ours.  We are reminded that He will provide for us and our daughter. We would not be able to share the good news and minister to others about adoption (We are ALL adopted! Ephesians 1:5, Matthew 18:5, 2 Cor. 6:18- to name a few), and because of our broken hearts, there will be "one less"!  

 

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." ~ Mother Teresa

 

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Although we do not have Lia Grace's referral yet, I am thankful, and hopeful!, that this will be the last Thanksgiving that she will be without her forever family. And, I am thankful for broken hearts.  



 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Psalm 107:1