Well here it is. As I said in my last post I have had something on my heart lately and today I plan to tell you what it is. 

One year ago today I started this blog. It was a year ago today that I started to feel a strong burden for the orphan. All orphans need forever families; don't get me wrong, but sometimes there's this one. You know, the one that can play your heart strings like a fiddle. The one that stands out for whatever reason. Well if you have read any of my blog posts you may already know who it is I'm talking about. My little love has already been introduced once before on here but here she is again. Little Miss Nastya.

This little love has spina bifida and hydrocephalus. This is a condition she was born with. I know from experience that this disability, although life altering, is just that. Altering. This condition does not mean she is worthless! It does NOT mean she deserves to spend the rest of her life in a mental institution somewhere all alone and forgotten about! It just means she is different. And let me be the first to tell you, different can teach you things you may never know about otherwise.

Now if you don't mind, I am going to get really honest with you. Ready? I started this blog one year ago today. This is when I started advocating for Nastya. Now here's the honest, raw, truth. It's been a year; and although it has been a wonderful one, full of orphans finding forever families, adoptions being fully funded, and little loves coming home for the first time, my little Nastya is still out there. Still waiting. Alone. She has no family to call her own. No Mommy is there to tell her she was created by a king who loves her beyond compare. She has no daddy to whisper in her ear and tell her about how, better than the fairy tales, she's a real princess. She has no one.

I've been on the fence here for a year now hoping to help find Nastya's family. I've donated every now and then to her grant thinking that would help. But now I'm ready to jump in. I'm ready to see this little girl go home.

As of right now I don't know what that means. I don't where this journey will take me, but I'm ready.

Sometimes I just need to hear from God. And this is why you haven't heard from me in a bit. Sometimes I just need my Jesus to whisper in my ear everything is gonna be ok. Sometimes things work out the way I think they should, and sometimes they don't. But in the midst of it all God is still God, and I am not. His ways will, always and forever, be higher than mine, just as his thoughts are higher than mine. I have had something on my heart for a while now that has burdened my spirit. But now is not the time to go there. In the mean time there are a few things I want to share with you. Recently there have been some things occur that have once again made me realize that I have a BIG GOD! That He is my provider and He is all I need. I love my Jesus.

Not only is the Rhodes family fully funded so they can go get there boys!!!

But my little Patti now has a forever family!

Little Bernadette has a family of her own now too! (This family is still in need of some financial support so feel free to head on over to Reece's Rainbow and show some love)

The little loves (that I blog so often about) have grants that have grown!! Leah and Tatiana you girls hang in there my prayer is that it won't be long now and your Mommy's (or Mommy) will come for you!!













Sometimes I just need some encouragement and the above stories have provided that for me. Thank you Lord Jesus for the extra reasons to praise you, for you alone are God and I will forever be grateful.