I cherish these days...

Oh sweet girl, I cherish these days. As I hold you in my arms, I wish with everything in me that I could bind these moments up in a box and give them to your forever mommy.  My heart is full as I hold you, rock you, feed you and tell you how loved you are as I pray for your future, your health and for your parents who will love you forever. Yet, my heart aches over the fact that the mother that God will soon provide for you, who already loves you in her heart before she has even seen your face, is being deprived of these sweet moments. I get to see you grow and reach milestones and I am cherishing these days I get to spend with you. You are starting to talk and jabber all day long. You speak long streams of joyful nonsense, full of meaning to your toddler self.  You know how to do so much already; it amazes me! You can spin a top, stack blocks into towers, climb out of your crib, feed yourself, choose which shoes you like best (even if they are 5 sizes too big!), ride a 4 wheeled bike, climb up me like a mountain climber and do a flip off my legs.  You laugh out loud and giggle passionately when you are happy, and you scream with all your might when someone tells you “no.” Oh, these days. They are precious and I cherish them and continue to pray that somehow I can find a way to share them with your forever mommy. I love her already and I don’t even know her name. God has given me a special job: to love you and prepare you for her. I know God has someone special for you who will love you even more than I do.
Until she can hold you in her arms….Oh sweet girl, I cherish these days.

This is orphan care. We stand in the gap so that there is no gap in a child’s life between their birth family and their forever family. We are blessed. Thank you to our partners who allow us to be here doing this work. It means more than you know.