Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Dear Glory,

Today we are celebrating your LIFE! You are one year old baby girl!

When we first saw your chubby cheeks and gummy smile you were only six months old. You have grown so much and we are so thankful God is sustaining you and caring for you while we are so far away!

We are all so excited to meet you and to hold you and to squeeze you and to kiss you. My heart nearly explodes when I think of the day we will get to do all of those things.

We want you to know that you are LOVED. You are loved by your family and by our friends and even by people we have never met but who heard of the amazing work God is doing to bring you to our family!

MOST IMPORTANTLY, you are loved by God. He is the one who made you and has kept you safe these last twelve months. He is supernaturally giving your little body the nutrition it needs and He is the one writing your story.

I know there will be times that are hard and your little heart will break trying to understand the pain and suffering you have endured. I promise to cry with you and hold you and love you but I know that will not be enough. I know the hole in your heart cannot be filled by me or Papa or our family. But we know the One who can fill it and we want to always point you to Him.

There are pieces of your story we don't know. You will have questions Papa and I cannot answer but we are praying EVEN NOW that you will be able to lay down those unknown pieces of your story and trust that God has brought you here in His all-knowing goodness.

This is hard baby girl. It is so, so hard. It will only make sense with Jesus.

We LOVE you and cannot wait to meet you!

Praying we always point you to Him,

Mommy + Papa