Rather than the typical "Hallmark Holiday", Valentine's Day will always hold a different meaning in our family's life...
One year ago today I was perusing Project Hopeful's waiting child list. My heart stopped at a simple description of a 3 year old boy named Mikiyas. I had a tugging in my heart feeling like we needed to inquire more about him. It's truly hard to explain, but we began to fall in love with a little boy that we had never met. Never seen. And knew nothing about. We only knew his name and his birth date... When I inquired more information, we later found out he wasn't 3, but was in fact 5 and the information they had on him was old, because he had been in the orphanage for so long.
One week later we received these photos:
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They were not recent, but it's all we had of him. We knew he was ours... But boy did he look sad. Broken. Lost. Unloved... We wanted him to know and realize that we loved him, but most of all GOD loved him! Thankfully, here we are one year later and he finally knows. He knows we love him. And he knows that God loves him. And he once again feels what love feels like. And I'm SO happy to say that he will always, always, always get to feel that! And I'm so happy to see these happy eyes...
Instead of these poor sad ones...
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Today we are celebrating love like many do on Valentine's Day. But we are celebrating a different kind of love. The love that not everyone gets to feel... You see, when you grow a child in your womb, that love just generates automatically, in my opinion. This kind of love is put in your hearts directly by God. A God who LOVES the orphans... It's a truly special kind of love... And because of it, our hearts have grown tremendously...
One year ago today I was perusing Project Hopeful's waiting child list. My heart stopped at a simple description of a 3 year old boy named Mikiyas. I had a tugging in my heart feeling like we needed to inquire more about him. It's truly hard to explain, but we began to fall in love with a little boy that we had never met. Never seen. And knew nothing about. We only knew his name and his birth date... When I inquired more information, we later found out he wasn't 3, but was in fact 5 and the information they had on him was old, because he had been in the orphanage for so long.
One week later we received these photos:
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They were not recent, but it's all we had of him. We knew he was ours... But boy did he look sad. Broken. Lost. Unloved... We wanted him to know and realize that we loved him, but most of all GOD loved him! Thankfully, here we are one year later and he finally knows. He knows we love him. And he knows that God loves him. And he once again feels what love feels like. And I'm SO happy to say that he will always, always, always get to feel that! And I'm so happy to see these happy eyes...
Instead of these poor sad ones...
.jpg)
Today we are celebrating love like many do on Valentine's Day. But we are celebrating a different kind of love. The love that not everyone gets to feel... You see, when you grow a child in your womb, that love just generates automatically, in my opinion. This kind of love is put in your hearts directly by God. A God who LOVES the orphans... It's a truly special kind of love... And because of it, our hearts have grown tremendously...
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