Every Child Deserves A Family

This has been a fun time of the year with Thanksgiving then Kylie's birthday, now on to planning Karsten's birthday, then celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus.  It is also a bittersweet time of year as we miss Kyler, but rejoice in the fact that he doesn't have to endure this sinful world and that he is forever at his home that he was made for.  This is a difficult time for so many people.

 I also think about orphans who are alone this Christmas and all they long for is a family.  The other night my family and I were watching the movie Santa Paws.  In the movie are foster girls in which some are adoptable.  In one of the scenes one of the girls was sent to the basement in the dark to be alone.  With Kylie on my lap she asks me tearfully, "Why is that girl all alone?  I don't ever want to be alone again!"  My daughter was sobbing.   She was remembering her past.  We forget.  We feel like she's always been with us.  At the end of the movie, two of the girls get adopted.  Kylie looks at me with tears welling up in her eyes and says, "So they have a family now?  They're not alone anymore?"  By then I was in tears and we both cried as I held and loved on my sweet girl.

I am so glad God didn't leave me alone either.   He didn't leave me as an orphan.  He delivered and rescued me all through His Son Jesus.  I am amazed how God puts families together.  It's not by blood how we are related (after all, you and your spouse aren't genetically related), rather it's through God and God is love.  I love all my children.  I am blessed to be called their mom.