This month - November.
- National Adoption Awareness Month
- Orphan Sunday
- Travel approval for our trip to China - 11/11/16
- Flight to China - the day before Thanksgiving 11/23/16
- Sofi's Birthday - 11/27
- Sofi's Gotcha Day - 11/28
It floods my heart. It floods my mind.
This season will never be the same for our family.
It stirs in me intentionally with all the celebration.
It stirs in me unexpectedly from deep places.
The unexpected moments hit hard and sudden. Sofi is so deeply woven into who we are that two years seems so rigidly short. It's hard for me to swallow the fact that she spent her first three years without us. I can recall the facts and celebrate the anniversaries, but it's the pictures that hit my heart. The pictures remind me of the empty bed; the little praying hands of her brothers and sister; the gifts that waited; the first photos that gave us a glimpse. Then my mind swirls back. My heart recalls the ache. the wait. the uncertainty. the four years.
Suddenly, I'm overcome with thanksgiving because I replay the prayers of faith - and now I look at the answers to each. and. every. one.
Sofi is here, and we will celebrate.
"Sofi"
That's all she will accept. If you call her cute or silly or anything else - she says,
"No. I Sofi."
Sofi.
Sofi Shu Yarbrough
This month.
This month belongs to Sofi.
And we will pour out our thanksgiving to our great God.
Give thanks to Him who alone does mighty miracles. His faithful love endures forever.- Psalm 136:4
