Friday, September 30, 2011

Hanna's Homecoming Video

Happy Friday Everyone!

 It's so hard to believe that a week ago our family was united at the airport, and precious Hanna Grace has been with us for a week already.  I'll post some pics of our homecoming along with how well she has been doing this week, but for right now I want to share with you this video that was made of Hanna's homecoming.  Words truly can't do justice to the amount of  thanks we have for Leslie Ford who put the video together, and Lauren Quinty our family friend that was capturing our home coming with photographs, that surprised us by having Leslie at the airport.  We will forever cherish both the photographs and this video that are simply perfect to sum up our journey to Hanna.  God is a God of miracles, and His timing is not always our own, BUT His timing Is perfect!

Hanna's Homecoming Video

Blessings and Much Gratitude to all that Have Prayed us through this journey and continue to day by day.

May you see God's fingerprints all around you.

Karen

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Simple Things

How our lives have taken this incredible turn that we never could have imagined.  I STILL find myself in awe that God has blessed us with another beautiful daughter.  So many days, weeks and  months longing to have our hearts filled with her presence and to know that she is actually here is surreal.  I think my heart is having to get caught up with reality.

It's made me so thankful for the simple things in life.  The joys of tiny gestures, of smiles.  I have been sleeping with Hanna on a feather bed cover since this is what she is most familiar with, and to have her wake up in the middle of the night, rolling herself around to find something familiar and secure and having that be me, just is overwhelming.  She loves to ROLL, roll, roll.  She knows wherever she is at any given moment on that cover, with her eyes closed.  She would roll to the edge, and than roll back to me, roll to the other side, than come back to me.  Than there were the moments she would reach out and grab my hand and just make some content sighing noises.  THESE are the SIMPLE things.  Bonds being built, love growing, and hearts conforming together.

Simple things.....watching her today walking with her sisters out in the driveway.  Looking at her watching them, and running ahead, yet not too far, where she's completely on her own. How blessed we are.  I'm so used to seeing the four girls together, that again, it's another moment that this fifth life is real, larger than life and so very vibrant is such a blessing.

Than of course, one of the things I cherish most is the simplicity of her smile!  How it just melts all of our hearts!  To know what she has come through in the last week, and to see such joy exuding from  her is simply miraculous.    She also knows that the way to her Momma's heart is through her laughter.  If she is going after something that we have said 'ne' to, she just takes a look at us, pulls out that cheesy grin and goes after it anyway.  This will be a challenge.  We had such a hard time with Adah, because she was so hysterically dramatic, that it was next to impossible to say no to her or correct her because she would have us in all out belly laughter. that continues to this day.   This will be interesting, for she has the drama of Adah, and the will of Bekah!  LOOK OUT WORLD!  :O)  She's absolutely perfect!  She's a girl that knows what she wants, and she doesn't want to miss a single thing.   I'm sure my mother would tell you that she reminds her of another lil girl that she used to know.  Another blonde baby, that knew what she wanted, and had a fountian pony tail as well. (something this mamma said that she would never do to her baby girls....God has a sense of humor)

Today, I took the chunk o love, as I've started to call her to the orthodontist with her sisters that had a check up.  That is where I realized that I'm so thankful for this journey because it's made me appreciate of  the simple things.  Baby girl was doing everything she could to get a smile out of the secretary there but she didn't get so much as a glance her way.  I knew how miraculous all those smiles were, and the fact that she was comfortable enough to explore,that my Mama heart wanted to ask this woman what was so terrible in her life that she couldn't take a minute to recognize the simple things.  Only one of the hygenists there today, took a few moments to recognize the chunk o love.  SHe's kind of hard to miss!  I had just missed my girlfriend at the office by about 10 minutes, and she would have given anything to see those smiles.  Made my heart saddened for people in life that are just too busy, or too overwhelmed to notice the simple things, and wants me to keep my heart on guard as well, that I don't get too caught up in the weeks ahead, in the normality of things, in the busyness of everday, that I forget how precious and miraculous each and every smile is of all my girls.

It often takes difficulties and trials to help us appreciate the simple things.  We've always said that Bekah's cystic fibrosis has made us thankful for moments, for time with one another. The long waits for our adopted daughters, has made us appreciative of moments together.....even when they are at 3 AM.   Tonight, Hanna went to sleep in her crib, as she was so exhausted by 8 PM.  She was in a hard sleep and I took the opportunity to sleep in my own bed.  It was the most luxurious last 6 hours of my life!  ha ha.  Two weeks ago, I would have been complaining about the bumps and lumps of that bed, but sleeping on the floor for 4 nights, has  made me appreciate the simplicity of  something that I already had that I had taken for granted.

So today as you go out and about your business.  Take a few moments to appreciate the simple things.  Maybe its the smile of one of your own children, or some one else's, perhaps its just taking a few moments to appreciate the colorful display that nature is putting on for us right now, or maybe it's just sitting and counting your blesssings no matter how small.

Here's a picture of my simple thing, which is a MIRACLE because of everything it represents.   A longing fufilled, hearts overflowing,  a heart being healed, but most importantly a God that loves me extravagently to bless me with this smile.




COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE, COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS SEE WHAT GOD HAS DONE! 

Saturday, September 24, 2011

A Circle Complete and Hearts Are Filled.

Hope Deferred Makes the Heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like eating from the tree of life....

Our hearts are full.......this is as close to heaven as you can get on earth.  Weigner style! 


How many nights we went to bed with empty hearts, waiting to be filled.  Hoping and praying for a phone call in the morning that would complete this circle.  It was hard, there were many tears, yet they made us stronger.  As we all grew stronger in our love for her, she grew stronger as well, as God worked out the PERFECT time for her to come to us and complete our circle. Our tears made us united, helped us point each other to a God that was in control when we couldnt' understand.  There will be trials ahead, and things won't always be smooth, but for tonight, there is this perfection.  This is what we will remember.   My words fail me as I look at this picture and I can hardly see the screen as  tears fall down my cheeks. This circle is filled, just as our hearts are.   It's filled with joy, with giggles, with smiles and with everything Hanna.  The pain is remembered, but it is there to help us help others know this time will come to for them.   To walk with them hand in hand until their hearts are filled.   Though Hanna was not always in the center of our family, God always had her at the center of His heart.  That was the safest place to be.















This next one is one of my favorites, because there were many times I had to wipe away Brienna's tears past my own, and today she has captured Hanna's heart, along with her big sister Bekah.
PERFCT PEACE!




HOME SWEET HOME






Just a quick update now to let you know we are home.  The "Karen regular blog" I'll post very soon about the trip home and our airport surprise.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all the have prayed us through this amazing experience.  A new chapter has begun, Weigner life with 5 precious princesses.  Our cups are overflowing, and to simply say we are blessed doesn't do justice. 

Hanna has spent the morning bonding with her two big sisters while her little ones sleep.  I just am overwhelmed looking at her sitting on the floor with them and my mind instantly goes to the snapshot of us sitting in Hanna's home in Korea, with her precious foster sisters with her.  How amazing that God provided those two precious girls to love up on Naeun the first year of her life, that would make her transition to our family feel more like home!  They will forever be a part of our hearts and lives.

For Naeun's foster family:  She is doing well.  She has her moments where she cries and cries because she misses you.  It is so hard to see, and I stay right by her and cry with her.  I know her heart misses you, but it is healing.  You will always be a part of her life, and again I can't thank you for loving her so well.  If she wasn't loved, she wouldn't be grieving the loss of those that she knows.  You have helped make her who she is.  She is strong, and she is confident, and she will fit in so perfectly as a Weigner girl.  Give each other big hugs from Naeun and High Fives!  Please know I continue to pray for God to heal your hearts and give you peace. 
Forever Grateful......Mark, Karen and the Weigner girls.

                                    Two BEAUTIFUL SISTER that Love Naeun so very much.


Rebekah and Brienna, finally united with their sister
playing with her in her room for the first time.
Two are Korean, two are American, but all four have the same love for her.
Naeun Hanna is such a LOVED little girl.







Thursday, September 22, 2011

Full yet Heavy Hearts

 What a week!  I'm going to have to take a week of quiet somewhere just to process all that has gone on here. ( and of course that won't happen any time soon!) The miracle, after miracle that God performed.  You all may be sick of reading that word.  Friends may I first say that Mark and I don't have a corner on miracles......we have just been praying for God to show His glory to a watching world and He has put on quite a display.

To quote a very special new friend that we met today at lunch....Pastor Eddi Byun, he is one of sthe pastors of one of the largest churches in the world.  60,000 members...(that kind of put the american mega church to shame)....but he was talking about how when as a person or as a church you step out in faith and start taking seriously the things that matter to the heart of God,watch out for the blessing will unfold.  Since that call on February 10, 2011 we have been so humbled that God would call us to be Hanna's parents, and to show a world where His heart truly is.  Not because of anything in us, but because of everything in HIM!

Tonight though as I write I have such a FULL but heavy heart.  You see as we were walking around one of the largest markets here and listening to the buzz of the city, the sights and the smells....I just stood back with Hanna around my waist in her carrier and realized this is the last night she will see, hear, smell and taste familiar.  YES, she has had a major change and familiar in her world was blown apart, but when we walk around, when we ride in the taxi or the subway....familiar is still around her.  I watch her look at people and wonder if she's still searching for her Umma, or her foster sisters and it breaks my heart.  I wish I could see them one more time to show them that she is adjusting and how much we love them and will keep them apart of our hearts and hers.

I DID HAVE ANOTHER MIRACLE TONIGHT THOUGH........one of her foster sisters commented on the blog and saw the smile on Hanna's face last night!  Praising God for that connection and that she speaks English and we can stay in touch.  I can have peace as the wheels lift off from the tarmac that we can stay connected.

Wheels on tarmac......reminds me of all the places God has taken me where I have left pieces of my heart and have been a crying mess as we lift off.  There was Brazil back in 1992, I thought they would kick me off the plane I was sobbing so hard.  Bangkok, Thailand, crying as I pictured so many different women's faces, their eyes, their stories that were forever emblazoned on my heart.  Than there was the flight leaving Seoul with Narae.  Another Kleenex box.  Yes, I was over the moon I was taking her home, but my heart was broken that I was taking her from her culture.  I look around and see small children playing, young girls arm in arm with one another walking the streets and I think.....these could have been MY GIRLS! 

BUT GOD!

God had planned from the beginning of time to bless our family with adoption.  It has taught us more about the heart of God than 1,000 theological books ever could.  It has taught us about God's unconditional love for us and that there is nothing we do to deserve it.  He loves us.  PERIOD.  Extravagently.  PERIOD.  I can do nothing to change the way His heart sings over me, for He has adopted me, and called me His child.

As we are packing up here, I have had some wonderful joys in meeting new people.  We spent some sweet time with our new friends the Bice's from Alabama.  Our hearts were knit together in Seoul, and I now have to visit the Gulf Shores, but first I must brush up on my (Alabamese).  I thought of the time with Molly Holt we could spend. The residents at Ilsan and the babies at the Reception Center. The people at Holt that I have been able to reconnect with, the new workers, DJ and Ryu, along with the old....Mrs. Shin. (not that you are old Mrs. Shin...you are just an old friend to us! ) :O) A divine appointment with a man that has the spirit of Elijah ....and a desire to see the persecuted free. Babies of adoptive mommas in the states that were right where they needed to be, so I could take some priceless pictures of them. Those are just some of the people.....than there were moments ....so many moments. 

I think the one that will stand out in  my mind in this trip is the MOMENT Hanna stopped running around, looked right in her Daddies eyes, and gave him a big hug!   That one is at the top. Than there was tonight.....I had a precious moment this evening walking Hanna in the back carrier in the hall.  All was quiet and I just started to sing 'Jesus Loves Me.'  My little girl just started to sing along.  I haven't heard her babble like that yet.  If you were to watch, it would just look like a mother and her daughter that have known each other forever. (ignore the hair color) Since she was singing more than falling asleep I came upstairs and went in our room where it was dark.  I put on the Steven Curtis Chapman CD...Beauty from Ashes and just started to rock her.  I also moved her from my back to my front.  Yesterday she would have screamed hysterically, tonight she put her face against my skin and fell asleep.  I just rocked and rocked and breathed in the moment.  How many nights did my heart ache for this moment, and here captured in time....we were having it.  She fell asleep with her arms around me and her cheeks touching me, and it was HEAVEN!  She is sleeping soundly now as well back in our bed.

After putting her down, I went to help Narae and Adah.  Narae was acting really unusual, and getting quite upset over outfits to where tomorrow.  It just wasn't like her.  So praise God, He reminded me there was probably a root there and I needed to dig.....before bed I asked her with Mark beside me if there was anything else going on.  She looked at us and nodded a little and I could see the tears welling up in her eyes.  She just started to cry.  "I'm so sorry for Hanna for tomorrow."  "I'm so sorry she has to leave the only country and the people that she knows."  "She's never going to see this place for a long time, and so many things will be new."  She just WEPT.  She was grieving like her sister was. She was grieving FOR her sister.   Mark and I were weeping with her.  For we had been praying God would give us inroads into her heart, where some deep pain may reside.  One of the greatest miracles has been the one I know God is doing in Narae's heart.  He's teaching her, that though there is pain there is healing.  I told her that we all would be crying too when we take off, but we have to look at the miracles that have happened and have faith in the miracles ahead.   I reminded her that if God can find my cell phone amidst a city of 13 million people, He can heal her heart.  Even though Narae knew that, I know the connection she has already made with her sister runs deep.  I think she is grieving for herself in a way, for the culture that just couldn't embrace her.  I told her she was so loved, and how brave their birth moms are. There love was and is strong, their courage lights a fire in my heart when I fear.....yet they never would have been able to get out from their labels and they knew their daughters wouldn't either.  So they made the greatest sacrifical gift to give them a better life.   Sounds very familiar to another picture I know that has to do with a long road and a cross.

We have reminded the girls through this grieving that their will come healing.  Just like as their was death on a cross, their was life and  redemption that was offered to all.  We  were adopted.  We believe that walking the streets of Korea, two VERY caucasian  people with some very
 Asian girls that maybe a few hearts have been changed.  We told Narae tonight, how God had picked her from the moment He thought of her life, that she would have just what Hanna would need to comfort her at this time and place.    I don't think it's a coincidence that she looks like one of Hanna's foster sisters and very much like her UMMA~   They were part of the plan....and she is a big sister carrying her lil' sisters pain and processing some of her own.  I'm thankful for the processing, I'm thankful for the tears, for they cleanse the soul.  Adah doesn't seem to understand as much, but I know it will still be hard.

So we have gained another Weigner girl.  Our hearts have been made complete with Hanna, yet tomorrow we will leave a part of our hearts here.  I pray for all that laid eyes on our girls, that they would have seen the heart of a Father.  Not just a bald American and blonde Canadian, but God doing extraordinary things through two very ordinary individuals.  As I always say, "it's not about me, but all about Him."  How my heart sings when I hear of other couples inspired to adopt, because of the story of our girls.

The wheels of the plane are schedule to leave a country we would call home in a heart beat, at about 11:15AM.  Taking us back to our older girls, our family our friends and loved ones. Scheduled arrival...Philadelphia at 5:00 PM.   Though there will be sorrow......joy will come in the morning, and we will continue to look ahead to what God will do, and keep walking putting one foot in front of the other.  I wonder where the next decade will have us walking or who will be walking with us, hand in hand.  A family I pray that will be  dedicated to Him!


Narae makes the taxi rides bearable since Hanna likes to sit with her.


Adah is the entertainment.


I just experienced a piece of heaven!


Only God could do this!  Thank you Holt family and SWS.


Kisses


Trying to cover Dad's bald head so he doesn't 'stand out'


When walking with Hanna, she has to hold a sisters hand.  This photo takes my breath away.


REFLECTIONS....hmm there's a post right there.

This young woman works for Holt.  Her father is the pastor at small country church.


A DIVINE  appointment....and yes ....another post.



God hears the prayers of a lil girls heart. She prayed forlittle  a sister for so many years...



New friends for life.


Sonia and Daria Bice


I think they wil be in each others weddings.


A billboard for the FATHER's HEART!


"Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we can think or even IMAGINE!"




If You Still Don't Believe in Miracles

After this week of divine appointments and things lining up better than I could ever imagine, I have another little story  for you if you still don't believe in miracles.

Today we stopped at Holt to introduce DJ, the social worker to Hanna.  Not only did we end up with an amazing lunch with one of the pastors of the largest church in the world who has a heart for human trafficking......(that is another blog post about a divine appointment) .but I was able to take pictures of some babies that were in the office and talk to their foster mothers.  I took a TONNE of pictures and video.

We said goodbye to everyone at Holt Korea. Mark took one last photo of the girls and I outside the Holt offices and than he handed me back my phone.  We were planning on meeting the Bice family at the market, but Holt had some things for us to take back to the States, so we decided to take a cab back to the hotel first of all.

I had Hanna in the carrier, and so I quickly unbuckled her from around my waist when we hailed the taxi and got in.  I was telling Mark I wanted to quickly upload a few pics to the adoptive Mums when suddenly I reached down and realized my phone was gone.  Mark remembers handing it back to me.  The girls don't remember me giving it to them.  We are mostly to our hotel about now and I'm feeling sick to my stomach.  I could care less about the phone, it can be replaced, but those pictures and video are like a drop of water to someone that has been in the desert for 40 days and these Mamas would have given anything for them.

We checked the cab before we left and it wasn't there.  I WAS PHYSICALY FEELING SICK.  As soon as we got by the front desk, I realized that I had asked for the business card of the sweet worker that was helping me translate to the foster mums.  I called her up and told her what happened and she said she would go look outside for it.  OKAY people  SEOUL is like 5 times the size of New York okay.  There are over 13 million people that live here.  All I could do was pray. I got on facebook and asked  for anyone that was up to please pray for my phone.  A fellow adoptive Mum online, I asked her to call my phone which she did.  When it was ringing she was messaging me saying.."What do I say?"  I told her say.."Speakenzeee ENGLISH"  She had to leave a voice mail.  I also asked her to text a message that said, "Bring phone to Holt Korea.". While that was going on,  the sweet office worker from Holt called our room back to say she hadn't found it, but that she too took my number and would try calling it.  Minutes were seeming like hours.  I was thinknig of the BICE's and realizing we were going to miss our meeting up time with them and now neither of us had a phone to use.

As I'm emailing my adoptive friend, the phone rang again, and we were told by our friend at Holt that the taxi driver had found our phone.  He picked it up when she called and he would leave it at our hotel, but later in the day when he was back on that route!  PRAISE GOD!!!!  My heart was jumping up and down for joy, yet I'm so physically exhausted, I messaged my adoptive friend to ask her to do a happy dance for me since I was too tired and need just a few days of boring.  Ha HA.

Well Mark went down and left money with the front desk for when they came back to drop off my phone and than we were ready to head to the market hoping to find the Bice's somewhere.  As we are walking out the door from the DMCville, a taxi pulls up and I just had a feeling it was our cab man.  Mark said.'No honey it can't be, that'd be crazy. However we can take his cab to the market."  I wish I had a picture of Marks face when the man opened his door, stood up, and he had my phone in his hand.  The way things were translated, I thought the taxi driver was ours and somehow I lost it in the taxi cab and somehow missed it when I checked. This man I had never seen before.  He asked if it was our phone, and I said Yes.(gesturing since he didn't speak English!)  Mark in shock, goes to get the money from the front desk man, and than the taxi cab driver continues to show me where he found my phone.  It was on the road beside the curb!!!

Talk about another topping of miracles on top of miracles.  What are the chances that this man would see it down on the curb, not drive over it, PLUS return it!  13 million people, think of Manhattan.  THAT is not coincidence.  That is a God that is showing up everywhere and in all places.

So now I've gotta download some pics people.  If Godcould get back my phone in this city, think of how much He cares for you! Trust Him to carry you through today!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Daddy's Arms

It's after 9 AM here and Hanna is still sleeping soundly.  She woke up about 2:45 AM, just feeling her surroundings.  We kept it dark as the foster mother said she liked it, and I went to get a bottle for her.  She shook her head no, and than she just went back to sleep, and is still sound asleep.

Thank you so much for praying for us today while you  were awake.  I was able to get a good leg of sleep as well.  I woke up at one point and looked over and Hanna  had rolled over beside Mark and he had his arm around her while they both slept soundly.  I loved it too that Hanna moved Mark to the far side of the bed, which gave me a lot more room!  ha ha
THAT'S MY GIRL!

It's a BEAUTIFUL DAY here in Seoul and we are going to go to Holt to introduce Hanna to DJ.  Hoping to get in some final shopping in the market, which we haven't had a lot of time to do.   The driver will be here to pick us up at 7:30 AM in the morning.  Hard to believe in 24 hours, I will be at the airport getting ready to leave this beautiful country with another amazing miracle.  GOd has done so much.




Just looking at this picture and I'm amazed.  Here she is sound asleep safe in her Daddy's arms.  Today she may fight those very same arms, because the circumstances are new, but her Daddy's heart is strong and we know in time she will know this is the safest place to be.
I was thinking of holding her while she grieved last night.  Before I put her in the back carrier she just had to scream. This is GRIEF.  It's not just screaming, it's not a tantrum, it's  HARD GRIEVING.   She didn't want me to put her down, but she didn't know what she wanted.  I just kept my arms around her strong, knowing she would understand this love soon, for it was designed by God.When I put her on my back, that was the love she knew from her foster Mum and it put her right to sleep. It was a bond that was familiar and we figured it out.  I  thought of the many times  I scream and grieve because of change and things that I don't like nor understand but God allows.  He's always there, holding me firmly.  His love doesn't change.
It's when I focus on Him, on His love that I find peace and can rest in His arms knowing His plans are for the best.  Change is hard, grief is hard, but there is always hope.  One day I will post a picture of Hanna wide awake resting firmly in the grip of her Daddy's arms when she learns to trust His heart.




Her sisters also got a good night sleep and are ready for HANNA duty today. 

Love to all, and for so many following our story, remember that God has His arms around you, loving you, holding you, whispering to you, crying with you, and sees the sun shining on the other side of the storm.  Trust His heart!  It is the safest place to be.




Asleep and at Peace

To God be the Glory Great Things He has done.

Baby Hanna is sound asleep right now, but her world has been turned upside down.  Today was I think the hardest day I have ever endured.  I took two of the longest car rides of my life, and I had to watch someone I love so dearly grieve so very hard.  Yet in the grieving, all of a sudden there was joy and we had about 2 hours tonight of her precious personality.  She's a mover and a shaker and I think could run a nation one day.  She is strong willed, and knows what she wants, but that's kind of what Weigner girls are all about!   She will fit right in.  I'll write more later, since baby girl is asleep and I only got two hours of sleep last night, I want to sleep when she does.  She could wake up at any time and start grieving again, which means I'll put the baby carrier, with her on my back and walk until she falls asleep.

Here are a few pictures from today of the miracle of her smile and the priceless moments we had to enjoy her personality.  Out of the blue, she came over to Mark who was on the floor, she walked past him, than stooped and looked at him and came up to him with open arms and gave him a hug.  I was able to witness the whole thing, but not a camera fast enough.  It was a SLICE OF HEAVEN! 

Her foster mother and 2 foster sister were incredible.  She was LOVED and ADORED oh so much.  Please pray for their hearts tonight as they are completely broken in two.  Hanna has taken a liking to Narae because I think she looks like one of her foster daughters.  SO thankful we brought Narae and Adah with us.  Today, they witnessed one of the hardest things in pulling a baby away from her loved ones, but though we were all sobbing in the car, God gave us moments of healing which made them even more miracles.  If she didn't grieve I would worry.  Her heart is broken, and that means she was loved hard.  I know God will heal her heart, and we will just trust Him for each and every day. 

Good night everyone and thank you for your prayers.











This was a few moments that she laid her head on my shoulder. It was the first time she would let me hold her.  How do you spell Heaven.  H A N N A!


Her foster mother just sat beside me and wiped tears from her eyes for about 20 minutes.  It was breaking my heart.....and I just had my arm around her, and prayed for her heart.  Oh, how she loved our girl......her daughter sat beside her wiping tears away. This baby has had an amazing foundation of unconditional love.  We know she will get through this because of how her foster mother has loved her.  STRONGLY and DEEPLY!


In the taxi looking out the window waiting for the taxi to go.  The director of SWS came and had the foster family say goodbye at the elevator.  I had to pull Hanna out of her foster mothers arms and she just screamed in the elevator into the cab.  She was a little distracted by the traffic .....for a moment.




This was just before the 45 minutes of crying for all of us.
She finaaly just was so exhasuted she fell asleep on Narae.



They found comfort in each other.  The miracle of this photo, and the impact this has been on Narae will only be know in heaven one day.



Comforting a broken heart because she hurt so much for her little sister.  I look like I've aged 10 years in this picture, and nothing could have prepared me for what that experience would have been like.





  

A SMILE!!!  THANKING GOD FOR EVIDENCE OF PRAYER!!!





After grieving again for her foster family, than popping her on my back, she calmed right down, went to sleep and we pray will find sweet rest!


This is the Lord's doing....it is marvelous in our eyes!

Love to ALL from SEOUL!!!!