She Is My Sister

    She has hands that know the meaning of work, care and love. Her perfectly shaped and Austrian chocolate colored eyes seem to smile before her lips turn, but they have seen so much and pierced through the heart of her new family. Her plump lips aren't often in a smile. My Daddy had to teach her how to pick on him. She didn't like it at first but then it made her smile to poke him. She has waited on a forever family for four years.

    When anyone else would have lost hope, she held on.
When anyone else would have wondered if they were ever going to get to go home, she had patience.
     
         After seeing child after child and baby after baby go home with their mommies, she had faith.
After holding on, embodying patience and never loosing faith...

God has decided, in wonderful mercy, to give her to this crazy, Southern family that can't wait for her homecoming!

 Marigrace and Jim at a cookout hosted by their wonderful church!

 Grandmother and Uncle Keith this spring

 Noel and me at Christmas 2011

 Hope with her spaghetti bread at Christmas

 JubiLee teaching a friend/sister a piano song

 Jesse, Will and JubiLee blowing balloons at Easter

 Hope, Whitney-Faith and Marigrace "teaching" our friend, Jessie, to group waltz.

 Marigrace coming home from New York!

             

            And two of the craziest people in the world: My parents! 

I thank God for the tenacity in the faith, their boldness in obedience and their love for life inside God's will.