Andrew's Blanket

Last October when I went to Kenya,a little boy named Andrew captured my heart. A couple months after I got home, I was house sitting with nothing to do for 2 weeks so I decided to knit a blanket. Weird I know. So I knit my first blanket in hopes that someday Andrew could get it. I spent every minute knitting that blanket to finish it in time for it to go over to Kenya. Then, I found this sweet invention where you can print pictures on fabric! haha. So I printed 2 pictures out and sewed them to the blanket...one of me and Andrew and one of a verse. So 8 months later, a new team from our church went over to the baby centre and they had a reunion for all the kids that had been adopted. It was so great to see how big all the kids had gotten and the huge smile they had on their face when they held their mom and dad's hands. It was really hard for me when Andrew got adopted because it was kind of the end of my journey with the baby centre. Most of the kids that were there when I went had been adopted and I knew that as much as I wanted to go back to the baby centre, they didn't need me there. They have so much help there as it is. But seeing Andrew with his mom and dad change everything. He is so happy. And he can have his own mommy and daddy to take care of him. So when Andrew came back to the baby centre for the reunion, they gave him the blanket I made him. So even though Andrew probably doesn't remember me at all, he knows that someone in the U.S. loves him like crazy. I'm so excited that he can have that with him now. Maybe someday God will allow me to see him again, but for now he's inspiration for me; a motivation to go; and an awesome story of how God works.

Holding onto Hope

"If you're working this hard to discourage me, Satan, then something really great is on the other side, if I persevere. The bigger the battle - the bigger the blessing on the other side."

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