When you were a teenager, did you ever try to make a scheme to get that guy you liked to notice you (or vice versa)? You might have really felt you belonged together. You really, really longed for him (or her) to love you and just be together. Isn't that the universal longing? Sure cultural differences may make the longings be expressed differently. But even when I lived in Asia where (at the time) at least 50 % of all marriages were stilled arranged by the parents, the longing for love and to belong was in the heart of most. ( I think it is in the heart of all, but it isn't always understood by the person having the longings because of their culture.)
The past few months I have seen several videos of various children who are also longing to belong. They were all older children (12 + years old). But they were not thinking of a boyfriend or girlfriend. They were pouring out their heartfelt longing for someone to notice them, to love them to belong together, as parents and children.
How my heart breaks for each of these children, who had their basic fundamental right of having parents raise them, was denied. How I wish I could take in several of them and be that parent they so long for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEyO-tpnJfI
Of course, all that takes money. Yes, money is the limiting factor.
So join our TEAM DANIEL and help us bring one or two of these precious ones into a family.
Thanks to all who joined our Pampered Chef Party.
We now have our Trades of Hope sell going on. Check it out. It will benefit a woman somewhere in the world to get our of poverty and it will benefit our adoption.
http://www.mytradesofhope.com/parties/1448
