One Month!

It is officially one month from this day that we will be welcoming Anna to our home! I am so eager that it feels like that day will never come. Though, I have so much to accomplish that I feel like she'll be here tomorrow and I won't be able to get everything done in time!

One thing that I just can't thank the Lord enough for is that we have been so blessed as we prepare for our silent auction fundraiser. Everything seems to just be "working out." Of course, we know that it has nothing to do with coincidence and everything to do with God's greatness and provision. We have a nice list of things that will be auctioned and the donors seem to keep coming. I had two businesses call me yesterday with gifts to auction! I am humbled and in awe of God's hand in all this. He wants Anna here.

As we prepare our hearts and home for Anna, we are preparing her living space as well! Yesterday we cleared some things out of the spare room and got her bed made with her PINK fleece sheets (it gets cold here), her PINK pillows, and her PINK comforter!! She said her dream was to have a room that was all pink... that is one dream we can most certainly fulfill!! Though we won't be painting the walls... she's probably going to change her favorite color after all the pink she'll be bombarded with here. :)

This girl is so stuck in my heart and mind. It's such a strange feeling. I don't know this girl but by a picture and a few things that she likes... but I feel like I've had her in my life forever and I'll be welcoming back a lost child. I know that her perspective will be completely different than mine, but perhaps the Lord is preparing her heart as well. We pray for her each night and I love her so much already! I understand it will not be all smiles and happiness the entire time she is here, but I understand that she needs us and because of that, I'm ready to plunge into the difficult stuff too. I want to help her so much. I want her to feel loved, secure, and "at home" here, even though it will only be temporary. Though I know, in the end, I will have to say goodbye... all my walls are down and I'm preparing for the heartache of the "goodbye."

All we know is that God has put this darling girl in our lives... and we are not letting her go. Though when she returns to her country we will not be with her in person... she is now and forever in our hearts, our minds, our prayers, and our lives. Hopefully our involvement in her life will change the typical statistics for a girl in her situation. It sickens me to think that she could potentially end up in prostitution... or worse, end up committing suicide. I just beg God that we can be the tool He uses in her life to change that. Oh God, may we PLEASE be the ones to help change that.