November is Orphan Awareness Month

"Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms.


But once you do, everything changes."


~ Anonymous

 
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- More than 46 million orphans in Africa.



- More than 71 million orphans in Asia.


- More than 10 million orphans in Latin America.


- More than 120,000 orphans in the United States.


Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


--James 1.27 (NIV)

Photos received from December 2009

Everyday there is something that Solomon brings up about what he had and didn't have in China. Tonight at the store it was the white mushrooms...yes, they have.

While looking at these photos we received last night of Yu Lei at a little birthday party for a fellow friend in the orphanage, Solomon said, "I didn't have a mommy."


I am so honored to be Solomon's mommy. He is one amazing boy. I marvel again at God's word and how our life with Solomon was written in God's book, before ever it took shape, when as yet there was none of us. In God's creation Solomon was always our family.