Meeting Our Brave Girl

originally posted on October 26, 2021

Hospital halls are thick with the bittersweetness of this broken world. Life begins and in the next room, a life ends. Healing is witnessed and in the next hour, an illness is taking over. We are intensely aware of how fragile we are, how one visit can change our lives.

It feels heavy.
Sacred.
People take their first or their last breath here.
We walk slow. We speak quietly. We breathe deep walking these halls. Not trying to get too dark but I feel it here today.
Pushing through heavy doors and passed beeping alarms. Rounding the corner in the dim room I see her.

Six weeks old, precious, beautifully perfect. She hasn't even been outside of these walls and she has seen more loss and more challenge than most people in their entire lives. But she is here. She is not giving up. She is a fighter. And if she never meets a milestone, never hits an academic standard, never takes a step, speaks a word, sees the world, hears my voice, or makes anything with her hands...she bears the image of the King and it is my honor and privilege to behold her, to hold her in my arms, to be her voice. And do everything in power to help her fight.

A little soul has entered the world! A little soul is fighting.

Foster care. Adoption. Special needs.

Life and loss, joy and sorrow, hope and challenge are mingled here, woven together. We are familiar with this dance between and back and forth and overlapping.

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Words scribbles last week when our lives changed forever. Our agency called about a baby who endured a traumatic birth which results in some injuries and needed a foster home. We prayed and prayed and called and talked. And we have so many unknowns but the truth and bottom line is: there is a little soul that needs a home on earth and lots of love.

We are so in love!!!! 💕💕💕💕
We firmly believe God will surprise us with all the many miracles and mountains He will move for this sweet girl of His.

"Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee, swift and beautiful for Thee."