One Less

Last Night there became one less orphan in the world. A family from my church stepped out of a plane and we were there to welcome them home with their beautiful, rambuctious new four year old son. Welcome home Caleb James Shu.

Our sign was ready

We waited

And waited

And there they were! Our first sigtings of this beautiful boy. He was worth the two long years of waiting and praying

First time meeting his grandma

His Joyful, Beautiful new momma

The Balloon a dangerous fun new toy

The adorable welcoming committee

The Beautiful family of seven plus grandparents. Welcome Home Grahams and many happy memories

Please pray for this family as they adjust to life with this very sweet overactive boy. Attachment is going well, and he is such a happy boy. Pray for the future surgeries he will need to hopefully give him sight in his eye that has a glaucoma. God couldn't have picked a better family to be his forever.

The Secret Voice

Not behind a mask

I never know what to say on this blog. I created it as a way to let my feelings known even if no one cares to hear them. The truth is I am far from put together. I struggle each and everyday. Nothing has ever come easy to me, except writing, but recently even that has been challenged by the great professors of college, and the even greater writers within my creative writing class. This semester I have been shot down a countless amount of times, because I'm just not as good.
I can't turn the political leaders of our current times, into books of the bible and make it a poem. I don't have horrific events to talk about, I've never had a guy so theirs no tragic break up, and I don't get caught up in stupid drama so that is one more topic I cannot discuss.
When I am struggling I pray, and talk to people in the church. I have never felt the need to put on a mask and pretend that my life is fabulous, because it is not, and I don't want anyone to think it is. I daily struggle to read my bible (and quite honestly it usually doesn't get done), I have a temper, I freak out when people ask me questions, I struggle to get words to come out right, sometimes people don't understand me. I am an outcast, but I feel that someday my differences will help. If I show my true colors maybe others will be comfortable confiding in me. I don't want to be another Christian that non-Christian's view as better than them, because their lives seem so perfect. I can guarantee, everyone has a skeleton in their closet.

Holly

This is Holly. She is an Orphan at New Day Foster Home just outside of Beijing, China. Holly will soon be twelve years old which means only two more years to find a family.

She desperately wants a family to call her own. Holly loves all things girly, and according to her Foster Family would be in heaven in a house full of baby dolls. She is sweet and kind. Could you possibly be her family?

 

 

The Secret Voice

 

Fun Photo Friday

           Look What came to town

Trials for the Files

  

       Sometimes being a "semi-adult" (I don't want to rush adulthood there) sucks. Sure children now see me as an adult they are expected to listen to, Hooray. But with adulthood comes bills that for some odd reason I am expected to pay. I know weird right. 

     So anyways financial aid, it would seem, doesn't appear to be to concerned about coming to my aid this year, so there may definitely be hard times this school year. On top of stupid ridiculously fun school tuition bills, there is the whole, the cute dentist needs to fix all my teeth and possibly perform a root canal problem.

    Yeah, I know what you mean. "Wow you have more problems then the average nice college student needs." i totally agree, but a bacteria has been forming under my tooth since last years check up and they caught it last week when I went in complaining of a dreadful toothache. But the fun doesn't end there my good people who aren't actually reading this blog. No, the bacteria couldn't just chill in one tooth and let my unending suffering end. No it had to spread its love to many of my other teeth, and now they need work done. oh I wish I could just hide in a whole and spend my life watching old TV shows, reading the Hardy Books, and patiently waiting for the readers digest each month. I wish life could just be simple for a little while. Pray.

                             

The Secret Voice

         I lost a wonderful pet Sunday morning, and the sad part is she wasn't mine for long.  I never mentioned this here, but one of my cats had 5 kittens about 9 weeks ago. 4 were big and healthy, 2 orange, 1 tan, and 1 a plump Siamese looking thing, but one was small and sickly. Her eyes were infected, she chocked when she ate, but we had a special bond and she was a fighter. I named her Lion, for I was convinced she would end up being the biggest and strongest one day. She loved being sung to, especially the "Boat Song" by JJ Heller.
       Eventually she found her voice, her appetite, and my shoulder where she loved to perch. She would turn and softly mew in my ear as if telling me a secret. She slowly got better at eating things, she began to grow, she got round, and adventurous, she was even learning to play with her siblings, something she really struggled with since they were 3 times her own tiny self. Sadly her life came to an abrupt stop. We found her very weak, struggling to draw breath, and I knew it was goodbye. I had seen this once before. I stroked her body and told her how very loved she was and an hour later she was gone. Buried in the cardboard box I had made into a bed, with her little plastic dinosaur she actually had no interest in, and it was over. I miss her very much, and so does her kitty family.

                      

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Rain

        I know my blog may seem boring to all, but Hey its RAINING!!!!! Also its 75 degrees. This rain couldn't have come at a better time. Our first city brush fire occured yesterday and now we have a good hard down pour, and I am thinking GOD. I am so very happy the weather man was wrong when he showed this morning that out city was not going to get any of the much needed rain. The only problem is my library stuff is due today and now i can't walk.

                  

                       

The Secret Voice