As many of you already know, my family adopted Mary Alan from China four years ago. With that, we have gotten to see adoption in a little bit of a better perspective. In the book of John, there is a verse that says, "I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you." For our family, this verse has a completely different meaning than it used to. We get to have a different perspective on our adoption into God's kingdom. The love that our Heavenly Father must have to accept us at our worst and most insecure selves, then love us so well and give us all we ever need. This past week we got to celebrate the anniversary of having our little China doll. Our whole family has been so supportive of accepting our little Mary Alan, and that in itself is one of the absolute most beautiful pictures. While being home for Christmas break, Mary Alan and I got to decorate the house for her Gotcha Day and for Chinese New Year! We also let a lantern go every year on her Gotcha Day to mark the start of another year as one happy family. Mary Alan has blessed our lives with more love and life than anything we ever could have imagined. We are so blessed to have another year with our favorite baby sister.
