Seemingly everything these days is colored by our wait for Jackson. In February, we celebrated Valentine’s Day, his grandfather’s birthday, and most recently, his big brother Sam’s eighth birthday. All were lovely days, happily celebrated, yet someone was missing…
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| (Yes, we have updated pictures!) |
Jackson, I wonder if you will ever grasp how quickly you were knit to our hearts, how quickly your new family felt your absence? I wonder if you will one day read this and grin at the thought that while you were going to kindergarten in Pindgingshan, we were missing you, even as we were slaying a dragon birthday cake and envisioning your tongue turning frosting-green along with ours?
What were your first five birthdays like? Will you be home by your sixth? A mama can hope, can’t she?
Jackson, you are missed! We cannot wait for you to come home!
Birthdays are special! These special days, and all the holidays, and summer vacations, and the day to day life that American families so joyfully celebrate in homes all across our country are unknown to many children. I wonder if there are a lot of families like ours used to be, unaware of all the children who wait. Not just in China, but here in the States, and in Russia, and in Haiti, and in Africa, and on and on…..
Today, in honor of all the little ones who don’t have a family to celebrate their birthday with them yet, I am praying for families to feel the call to adoption. Will you pray with me? I have added several links that will connect you with the real faces of waiting children in China. Please take a moment and see who is waiting… maybe for you…
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| Meet Gretchen here... |
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| Or Dalton here... |
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| Find Felix here... |
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| Or Wendy here... |
