The Plight of the orphans pt.2

I promise my blog isn't turning into a plight of the orphans blog, but when I see the way these special children are treated, just because they were born with an extra chromosome, it kills me. It is hard to see them living like this, and it makes you wonder why the Lord allowed them to come to families where they would be abandoned because of their special needs, but then I remember that, they are children of our Heavenly Father, and while it appears that everyone has forgotten about these children, He has not, and He never will, and once they pass from this life, they will live with Him in the Celestial Kingdom forever. That's how special they are.

This beautiful little girl is Liliana.

This beautiful girl, she is 11 years old.


Yes. You read that right, ELEVEN!

She weights 10 pounds. Yes, you read that correct too. TEN POUNDS!

And she live in an orphanage in Eastern Europe, where she has spent that 11 years, all because she was born as an extra special daughter of our Heavenly Father. She was born with down syndrome, and in the country she lives in, people with downs are cast out of society, given up to orphanages, all because of their extra chromosome.

And it kills me. It kills me that the beautiful girl has to suffer, all because she was born a little different than "normal". I know so many 11 year olds, and I can't imagine them having lived their lives like this little girl.


Please, if nothing else, pray for Liliana. It looks like she has a committed family, but this family is relying on the Lord to provide the $22,000 ransom to bring Liliana home.

If you are interested in helping out Liliana's future family and to find out more about Liliana, please go to: http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/2011/08/because-it-is-our-problem.html

I've posted about Adeye before, and she is amazing when it comes to helping to raise the ransom for these children.

Happy Birthday to me!

Ok, so my birthday was...13 days ago, but I can still celebrate right =] I turned the big 21 this year...I'm officially and legally an adult everywhere and (as far as I know) can legally do everything except rent a car. Really? Why do I have to be 25 to rent a car?? They really should make it 21 to rent a car and 25 to drink. Bizarre.

I didn't do a whole lot for my birthday, nothing in fact. I worked...though I did go home and my mom had made me a chocolate cake for my birthday =] It was delicious. And I got Cafe Rio for dinner, which is always delightful. We celebrated again on Wednesday by having Dickey's BBQ for dinner (so good!) and then we left on Thursday for a family reunion up in West Yellowstone! That was so much fun! Almost all of the family was there, and it was great to just be able to sit and visit with cousins who I don't get to see very often. We had a family meeting and I made and announcement (I'll make it on the blog in a few weeks, once some things are more set in stone) but I'm very excited for this up coming year!

School starts in 16 days and I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or not...I've got some good classes but I have better things to look forward to after this semester, that this semester could potentially go by really slow! Or it could go by really fast =]