Faith like a child

Our adoption experience has been so profound for our family, including our children.  Not only do we want to love our new baby girl, Della, we also want our children to care for others in a BIG way. I am excited to see how our children will multiply this experience.


The other week Josey says, "I want to be two things when I grow up, a farmer of animals and go to Africa and bring home 100 kids who don't have moms and dads".

Emma came to me with a very involved budget she calculated to determine how long it would take for her to raise money for children in orphanages by selling soaps she will hand make to people here in the states.  

Last week, at breakfast, we were talking about appreciating the food that we have even if it's not our favorite.  And we shouldn't complain because some children, like those in the orphanage Della came from, won't get but one meal today.  Wyatt says, "Mom, why can't we just take big trucks of food, drive up to the door and dump it at the orphanages, then no one would be hungry".

Two days ago Eli was taking rocks from the driveway and breaking them apart to find beautiful sparkling minerals.  He asked if 1 cent was too much to ask when he sold them, I told him he should ask for at least 10 cents each.  He sold as many as he could to me and his siblings.  Yesterday he got his siblings involved and they all mined for minerals.  Last night he told me he wanted to give all the money he earned to a "5th World Country", I kindly corrected him, "You mean a 3rd World Country?"  All the children excitedly agreed they would use the money they earned to buy school supplies for the orphans in Africa.


Kids think the impossible is possible.  I'm sure you've heard the saying "Faith like a child".  Their thoughts and ideas are not hindered or squashed until someone else (usually an adult) tells them it's not possible.  I've thought lately, instead of telling them "You can't do that, it's not that easy", how about asking "How can I help you do that?"  If only we, as adults, were willing to say "yes" like a child, how many could we show love to?  How few orphans there would be!

I'm not sure where this journey will end, if there is an end.  I am excited....scared.....willing.  I know God speaks to me through my children.  I think He is reminding me to have a perspective like that of my children.    

Matthew 19:26 "Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”