50 kids. 34 boys, 16 girls.
22 countries.
Crazy amount of love.
I emailed Compassion with a special request. As you may have noticed, my family is made up of mostly older kids. I decided to make my last three kiddos actual babies of the family. I asked for kids under the age of 8.
Today, I found all three of the kids on my account. Two little guys and a little girl.
7 year old Aaryan from India
7 year old Enmanuel from Dominican Republic
3 year old Carolin from Dominican Republic
I can say, with absolute confidence, that my family is complete. I have my 50 kids. I feel so honored and blessed that God is trusting me to be in the lives of these kids. I have to opportunity to speak hope into their lives. Plus, I get the extra blessing of being able to hear back from them and communicate with them. Compassion's correspondent program is such a blessing.
Man, I love these kids.
congratulations! I have no idea how you keep up with all the letter writing...
ReplyDeleteIt's easy when you're single, have no children, and no real social life, haha. But seriously, I work and then I come home and write letters.
ReplyDeleteI hate to admit it, but lately I regret having so many kids to write to - I feel like I can't keep up and don't know much about any of my kids. I just had one leave the program and don't know if I'll replace her with another child. I probably shouldn't have taken on 8 more correspondence kids earlier this year. Just feeling overwhelmed... Thankful for you and your commitment to these kids!
ReplyDeleteI can definitely understand feeling overwhelmed. At times, when there are tons of activities going on at church, I sometimes get letters piling up that I need to respond to and I feel guilty when I take so much time to answer them. But, I just have to remember how important letter writing is.
DeleteI think if you're extremely overwhelmed, there is no shame in having Compassion reassign some of your kids to other correspondents.