My how God has moved! It has been an amazing year of love, joy, learning, sadness, fear, and SO much more! I can not even begin to explain all the things we have been through but what I do know, without a shadow of a doubt, is this little girl is LOVED and CHERISHED and exactly what God had planned for us.
In the past year she has grown tremendously. Obviously her physical appearance has changed but that's just the surface. She is SO smart! He verbal skills are lightyears ahead of where we could've ever imagined they would be. Her dr. says she's even "ahead" for an average 3 1/2 year old. Her comprehension is astounding and her responses to instruction and redirection are so much more than I could've dreamed. She is determined, every day, to do the big kid stuff. I guess that's what happens when the closest sibling to you is 11!
As I said, it's not all been great. This precious treasure was an orphan, she was abandoned, she had no family. These things come up. She is terrified of being left. She has to be reassured every time she's dropped off anywhere that we are coming to get her, that we will not leave her. She has asked questions of her home before, she has asked where she was before, she points out her differences, she opens doors and we walk through them slowly and at her pace. In all the mess, in all the sadness, in all the chaos, our precious girl is loved. She is learning that we are together forever!
What I know is this, she is loved by us; but even more importantly she is loved by God. He has been with her since she was born. He has never left her, He will never leave her. She is His child, and my prayer is that one day she will chose Him as her Father.
Jadyn Grace, we love you! We could never have known what this first year with you would bring, but it has been an AMAZING year and we are SO thankful for YOU! We love you and can't wait to see what God is going to do in and through you in the years to come!
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