One Year ago...

One year ago....I was planning and praying for the biggest adventure of my life!
I never imagined that just one short year later my family would be preparing and praying for the biggest blessing of our lives!

         I say blessing, because a child is not an adventure, we are not just trying this out....this is for real and this is for keeps!

As I was preparing for all the expenses and things that needed to be set in place...
I never imagined that my family would spend the year fundraising and doing paperwork!

As I was praying that God would let me impact just one person while I was there....
I never imagined that I would be able to be part of changing a very special girls life in a very real way!

As I found myself being spun around by one of the most amazing little girls I had ever seen....
I never imagined that I would see my family laugh and cry over the little girl that has changed their lives without even meeting her!

I never imagined how one simple prayer saying..."I will go" would have such a profound impact on my life and my family.

A year later I hear my family saying "here we are" and friends and family surrounding us saying, "we will".

Somewhere over the ocean a little girl celebrated her 9th birthday....still never knowing what its like to have a family.....here I'm crying for this little girl....and all the while God is preparing a way for this little girl.

Everything can change in a year....last year we were a complete family and this year we are missing a vital part of our family, grieving the loss of not having her with us, knowing her sorrow of still being familyless.

It makes me wonder where I will be a year from now! Probably somewhere I could never imagine! But thankful I just have to say, "Here am I, send me".