We learned today that Garrick was recently hospitalized. We were not told why just that he is doing better. Please, dear friends lift him up in prayer. Pray that we will be able to go to him quickly. We need our home study completed, our medical expedite approved, and that we will raise the money needed to get him.
Thank You.
Us
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Break My Heart For What Breaks Yours
I did not grow up around many adopted kids. My exposure to orphans or the idea of adoption was very minimal. Of course, I was aware there were children who were abandoned or who had no parents but I didn't know any of them personally. I saw the TV ads for sponsoring the poor-malnourished-child with the flies on his face but my only thought was "how sad". It was not a concern in my life. It did not truly effect me.
In 2010, Steven and I went on a mission trip to Haiti and we worked with orphans. Being with those kids was heart-changing. They were in my life, I was privy to be allowed entry into their hardships and brokenness. I was there to witness the fear the rain would bring for the children who lost their families in the hurricanes. To listen to the teen-aged orphan's desire for a "regular" family. These children tore down the walls of my heart and from that moment I knew I would never be the same. I could no longer just think "how sad". Now it was personal.
Since then I knew I wanted to adopt and provide a home to a child who needed it. To give love and grace to a child who was rejected, cast out, and abandoned. To give them a name and an identity. To walk in that brokenness day to day with them. Because isn't that what Christ did for me? Isn't he walking with me in my brokenness?
I pray that if you do not yet have a broken heart for orphans you would ask God to give it to you. Ask him to break your heart for the things that break his. Ask him to make it personal in your life. He has done the same for you. He took your title as "Orphan, Sinner, Untouchable, Outcast, Unlucky, Deformed, Special-Need" adopted you as his own and gave you his name. Ask him to help you be the hands and feet of Jesus.
In 2010, Steven and I went on a mission trip to Haiti and we worked with orphans. Being with those kids was heart-changing. They were in my life, I was privy to be allowed entry into their hardships and brokenness. I was there to witness the fear the rain would bring for the children who lost their families in the hurricanes. To listen to the teen-aged orphan's desire for a "regular" family. These children tore down the walls of my heart and from that moment I knew I would never be the same. I could no longer just think "how sad". Now it was personal.
Since then I knew I wanted to adopt and provide a home to a child who needed it. To give love and grace to a child who was rejected, cast out, and abandoned. To give them a name and an identity. To walk in that brokenness day to day with them. Because isn't that what Christ did for me? Isn't he walking with me in my brokenness?
I pray that if you do not yet have a broken heart for orphans you would ask God to give it to you. Ask him to break your heart for the things that break his. Ask him to make it personal in your life. He has done the same for you. He took your title as "Orphan, Sinner, Untouchable, Outcast, Unlucky, Deformed, Special-Need" adopted you as his own and gave you his name. Ask him to help you be the hands and feet of Jesus.
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