I know it and, to be honest I'm somewhat ashamed.
In the middle of the whirlwind, it can be so easy to push aside the names and the faces, to separate from the pain, the loneliness, and the death that is far too common in the lives of these kids.
Funny, how when things seem the craziest it can be the quietest voice that calls you back. . .
This week a dear and precious lady names Julia wrote about their adoption trip and the little girl they left behind - Cadence.
Cadence was one of my 16 this year, the children I've prayed for, the children I bring up when someone is crazy enough to open the door to a conversation on adoption and let my poor heart spill out. Julia's post was a quiet call back to the importance of these children who still wait in the whirlwind of our lives.
Children like Marissa
And children like my Christmas angel Claire
Honestly, in the whirlwind anything felt like too much: too much sadness, too much work, too many barriers.
Then this quote popped up in my memories
"We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive."
— Jamie Tworkowski
It honestly doesn't take much to give these kids a chance. While adoption would be the biggest change not everyone is called to adopt or even adopt right now. That said, anyone can learn about the needs of the children who wait, can exchange the cost of a coffee with assisting a waiting child's grant, contribute to an organization like Maya's Hope that works in country helping the children day in and day out. Anyone can raise their voice and shout for these kids - sharing their stories and raising them up in prayer.
All it takes is listening to that voice in the whirlwind.
