Leaving this world for a much better place…

It’s beyond comprehendible to think a parent would EVER find joy in losing a child! However, sometimes home, is not in our arms it’s in the arms of our Creator!

In the past few weeks 31 little children lost their lives in the Congo. Just recently our agency started working with an orphanage in a very remote village that had a little over 50 children living in it. In a matter of days a water born illness traveled through 31 of those orphans bodies making them so sick they couldn’t survive!

This heartbreaking story brought back a memory for me that changed my life forever. About 6 years ago I heard from a missionary friend, in Africa, who had literally just spent the night before wiping the brow of an orphan and singing to him as AIDS took his last breaths. Adam and I had just visited this orphanage and I realized in that moment that every single child in this whole wide world has a right to life and life to the full…however…we can’t stop death. But we can be there to make them feel loved, to prayer fervently for they’re spirits, and to tell everyone their story!

The darkness of this world can strip anyone’s life short but it CAN’T take our soul! That will forever belong to our King, our Creator, our Savior.

These 31 sweet souls may have lost a battle they weren’t prepared or even fairly placed in to fight but I can promise you this….!!! They are in the best Home and Hands anyone could ask for!

Who taught me this? Adoptive mothers who just found out their children have been buried in Africa!

During the adoption process you go through so many ups and downs but one thing you hold tightly to is that you will be a forever family for someone someday. But sometimes that forever family is not our home but the heavenly kingdom which awaits us all!