Please Don't Just Pass Them By..

Today is Orphan Sunday...

This is the third time I've posted this video on this blog over the years.  And I will post it, again and again.  It is worth it.  Please watch it.



I've blogged before about how orphans are tied up, how they are so stiff they can't move, how they are starving.  Here is just a small glimpse of that.  And it isn't just the country featured in this video.  Many (not all) places are like this:




Hi everyone, the little girl Kareen has a family and is home.  But there are so many others who do not.  Please, I know we can't all adopt.  I can't adopt.  But we can all do something.  Visit these websites.  Pick a child, scream at the top of your lungs all over your social media for that child or for any or all of these kids.  Pass the websites on.  Alot of people just don't know this happens.  Pray for them if you pray.  Adopt if you can. 

Realistically, I know alot of people will come to this blog and leave without clicking the links at the bottom of this post.  Alot of them may leave without watching the videos.  But please look.  Please click.  It only takes a few minutes of time - that may very well change the world for someone else.

Thank you for reading here today, Orphan Sunday.
Take care.

www.reecesrainbow.org
www.projecthopeful.org
www.adoptuskids.org
www.rainbowkids.org
www.eliproject.org

Happy Birthday Buddy

We miss you

All of Us...

Hi there...

 

Did you know that all of us...

Are Looking for Our Mommies and Daddies?

Did you know?

[my family found me]

That all of us

Are are also on a page of kids that are said to be adoptable by single women?

That's right!

If you are only a Mommy...

...but still want to adopt...

That's Great!

 

Come and Get us!  We are waiting!  

All of us and more kids available for adoption by single mom's can be found: 

BY CLICKING RIGHT HERE

Sweet Little Mabel

Is so very loved.  Her family actually found her a long time ago...

And have loved her and wanted her home with them ever since. But from what I understand they were told they were too young.  They were told, probably Mabel would still be availible anyway.

How devastating to suggest she would go un-noticed. 

But I believe it wasn't that she went un-noticed.  She was simply theirs instead. 

Thank you, sweet family, so much for loving Mabel.  My thoughts and prayers are with you as you undertake this journey.

Check this out!!!

You may have to scroll down a little bit when you get there but click HERE and you will find....

Mabel's family has found her!  Omg, omg.. I am so happy [near tears here even, happy tears]  I have no idea who they are yet but thank you God.  Thank you...

Why is she still waiting??

Update 12.15.2012:  Megan's Family has found her!  Thank you God!

Oh my goodness, why??

This is "Megan" she is nearly fully funded.  And when I say nearly I mean: $24055.50 is said to be available for her adoption.  

I am thinking it is because people just don't know.  Those of you wanting to adopt but don't have the money? This is a good thing. Is she yours? 

Megan was born in 2005. She does have special needs but then in some way or another don't we all.  Click here for her Reece's Rainbow profile.  Contact Reece's Rainbow for more information.  

 If she isn't yours can you post about her own your blogs or put her on your twitter.  Tell everyone you can about her please?  Her family is somewhere out there.  The only reason she is waiting is because they just haven't found her yet.  Let's help them.  Thanks everyone.  ^_^

Do Good Anyway

 I've posted this here before, but it's been a while.  I am thinking though, it is time for a reminder for me.  A time to post it again.  
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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

          --Mother Teresa.

We Will Never Forget

The day that changed the course of our history.  I was at work when it came over the radio...
On this day it didn't matter your political views, your income or race.  The people of the United States of America STOOD AS ONE.  Together.  As one...

I wish we could at all times.

In memory of the lives lost.  With love and respect to those whom lost loved ones.

We never will forget.

August

August.

Was a difficult month.

Has come and gone with hardly me knowing it.

Was a two year anniversary for a two separate big changes in my life.

Next year, instead of two separate anniversaries there will be three.

Next August will get here before any of us knows it. 

And right now, there are even more troubles ahead...

...more troubles and five days to sort them in.

I won't face them alone. But ultimately can't just expect for them to be done for me.

Then perhaps a good September.

Just a note about August here, with hopes for a good September ahead.

Take care, everyone, out there.

Today... 08.22.2012 11:00 a.m.

Pray for my Grandmother...

...please.  Everyone who reads this, if you pray, please...  of all the things I've asked on this blog this is the most important.  She has cancer in stage 4... she will be in Heaven any moment.  Pray for my parents.  Please.  And pass this on to any prayer warriors you may know...

--Debrah.

Another Year has Gone. He has a New Picture...

Who is he?  My sweet Owen.

I found his new picture with a bunch of other kiddos when I read this post here.  Scroll down, it's there.  Be sure and look at all those other little faces as you do. They need a family too.  Thank you Julia for posting him!  Hopefully someone will get him home, and the rest of them, soon.

Happy Birthday America

Freedom...

...it's important.  Isn't it?  Isn't it???.

It won't let me embed this video, but its a good song if you want to watch it.

Gone

This little girl is gone. She was eleven years old. She passed away in an overseas orphanage or institution without a mom and dad.  Some of you may 'slam' me for caring, but go ahead if you feel you must.  Sometimes people react to things they fear or don't understand by making light of them.  But why, oh how, could someone, anyone, make light of this?  And say that, these kids should stay where they are at?  And die of neglect?  Simply because they are overseas and not here in America?  I do not know much really, about all this and how it works.  But I do know a few things.  One of those is this, that if kids here in America were treated the way these children are --- people would be imprisoned, seriously imprisoned, possibly for life.  Children like this little girl are 11, 14, 15, 9, 5, 3, 2 years old, younger and older, and are left to lay in cribs all day long ---yes cribs--- at age 15--- until thier bodies stiffen up, bent out of shape so they cannot even move.  That, and/or they stop growing, and look like they are still only a year or two old.  And they are starving, literally starving, at age 14, weighing only 11 pounds.

Yes, it happens.  I am not making this up.  No, I haven't been there.  I don't have to be there.  Possibly if I was there, I would never ever leave.  I have to add respectfully that this does not happen everywhere over there.  But sadly, more often than not, it seems it does. 

Now, with all that said, I must point out that yes -- kids here in the USA need homes too, even if they are not starving to death, it doesn't mean they are any less deserving. I am simply stating, we shouldn't single ANY of these children out on either side of the ocean, simply because of where they live.  They all need homes.  Where you choose to adopt from, if you so choose, is up to you, what you feel comfortable with for not only yourself but for the sake of the child.

The little girl above?  Didn't she deserve a mom and dad?  Didn't she deserve to be loved by a family? Didn't she deserve to come home?  But sadly, most people just don't know.  If they did I believe a dozen or more moms and dads would have been knocking on the door to get that little girl out.

People just don't know.  Or they don't have the money.  Or simply cannot adopt.  But everyone can still help.  Everyone can do something.  We can help and support the people whom can adopt.  We can help them raise the funds they need.  While they can fully support the child when they bring them home (one of the reasons a home-study is done, I believe) most people just don't have 22,000 dollars or more laying around.  We can do something.  We can help the families.  We can sponsor them.  We can advocate for orphans.  Talk about them.  Get word about them out there. Pray for them if you pray.  There are many so things that we can do.

The fact is, this little girl is just one of many, many, many, I cannot even pretend to know the numbers, hundreds, thousands? whom die in these conditions every year.  Why? When we can help them.  And please don't tell me 'you can't save them all' because there are approximately 163,000,000 orphans in this world, which is, for an individual person -me- or any one person- a mathematical impossibility.  But if we group together who knows what we can do.  I've written here before, if only 7% of the Christian population were to adopt there wouldn't be any orphans left in the world.  When put into that perspective, 7% is a very small number indeed.  And by the way, it doesn't just have to be Christians.  I was just using an example to show the numbers and that we can do something.  

Which brings me to her.  This is 'Mabel' as she is known on Reece's Rainbow.  Look at her, everyone.  Look at the hurt in this little girl, its almost like she thinks is just part of life to be like this, to chew on her own hands to soothe herself because she has no one else to do it for her.  Should any child have to look like this? Hurt like this? Be like this? Goodness, she is seven!  Is she yours?  Even if you are not looking to adopt?  I will say it now like I have many times on this blog, once again I will put it out there -- right now I am not able to adopt.  I know there are people out there whom can't either.  But if you can't, she is someone's daughter.  It's amazing what a little love can do.  Let's get her out there?  In honor of 'Lynette' -- the little girl pictured at the start of this post. 

Yes, it will be hard.  Yes, she has special needs.  Yes, it will be expensive.  But isn't her life worth it?  Isn't it?  Even if you don't know her?  I think her biggest special need is simply the fact that she needs a family, to love and be loved.  Thank you everyone, for listening and passing her picture along.  More information about Mabel can be found right here.