FROM ONE HUNDRED TO ONE

I once dreamed of starting an orphanage and imagined myself offering a home to hundreds of abandoned babies and children. My perspective has since changed…

My first week in Uganda I looked expecting to find a child abandoned on the side of the road just waiting for me to find him/her.

 I looked and never found.

The following months I searched, I searched for an organization to work with to find those children who needed me.

I prayed, I prayed that God would help me find those children who needed me. I stopped.

The moment I stopped I found.

I found a little girl, abandoned just days before. No sound escaped her mouth, her eyes were clouded over, she had seen things I could never imagine and now she was snuggled in my lap her breathing irregular. I watched her grow and every day my love for her grew and grew and grew until I no longer had control over my decisions. My decision to go home was immediately gone, who knew that someone as tiny as a malnourished two year old could change the course and decisions of my life.

My heart broke in two the first time she called me “Mama” and every time after that. I thank God daily that she is in a home with loving and hardworking mamas to watch over her. I cry to think that one day I could find her gone, never to see her beautiful eyes again. I rejoice for the opportunity to hold her close as she has medical examinations. But most of all I have faith, I have faith that God will provide a way. I have faith and trust in Gods plan for her and for me. No matter what happens I hope that I have made my Father in Heaven proud by bringing my small bit of love into her life.

We were both in a low part of our life when God chose to bring us together. We have both made each-other strong. I am beyond blessed to be able to act as Gods hands.

Please pray for this little angel with a love for food, a smile that melts your heart, eyes that sparkle with joy, hands that comfort her friends, a mouth that blows kisses, and her darling, yet cheeky personality.

She is my miracle