I love Sundays!  It’s a special day to reflect on my favorite things.    We love to take Zoie on donut dates.  She screams, shrieks, claps and simply squeals when she walks into the “do do” shop.  As you enjoy Zoie Live video and take a long sniff of fresh baked donuts… embrace all the things you love today!

Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping.  (1 Corinthians 16:13- Message)

Fun pics…

I’m really starting to regret the sample + 2 pumpkin spice I just ate!

There is nothing sweeter than a Zoie and donuts.

One of my highlights in Haiti was when a group of children sang my favorite song, Jesus Loves Me.  Simple and Beautiful. Enjoy this video of God’s love… all over the world.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!

I can’t express what my heart felt holding Zoie today after watching the documentary, I Am Because We Are.  If you are interested in caring for orphans and adoption… you don’t want to miss this film!  The photography and stories are stunning, heartbreaking, and inspiring.  I challenge you to overlook the fact that a certain “celebrity” is part of this project… but allow your hearts to wrap around the urgency to simply love.

Please find time this week to watch I Am Because We Are.

Now playing in the YouTube Screening Room: http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom.

Some footage may not be suitable for minors

In the African nation of Malawi, disease, poverty and famine have taken a horrible toll, especially on young people — in a country of twelve million people, one million are orphaned children. In 2006, pop singer Madonna began studying the crisis in Malawi, and decided to use her wealth and celebrity to help; she helped finance the construction of a home for orphans, founded a relief organization called the Raising Malawi Orphan Care Initiative, and as a personal example she and her husband adopted a boy from Malawi, David Banda Mwale, whose mother had died. Now Madonna has written and produced I Am Because We Are, a documentary about Malawi that attempts to demonstrate at the need for action by profiling eight children growing up without parents; these youngsters long for a better life and are strive to remain optimistic about the future despite the long odds fate has set against them.

Love is blind. This is the amazing story of Pandu, the 5 year old miracle boy from India.  If you are interested in learning more about adoption… don’t miss this video!  Their journey is captured this month in People Magazine and CBS News. I want to hear your comments.

People will adopt older kids. They’ll adopt disabled kids and neglected kids. Kids who can’t read, kids who can’t talk – there are people willing to adopt.  But all those things in one child? CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman reports there are few who want that.

Born blind, Pandu was dumped at a hospital gate in India. At the orphanage, he was the one child who was there year after year, until last year. That’s when the 5-year-old got swept up by a Denver couple who said he was just what they were looking for: a little boy with his father’s eyes.

Jason Fayre teaches blind people how to be self-sufficient. So when he and his wife Lalena, who can see, decided to adopt they chose not to just give any child a home, but to give one special child a real chance – a chance he would have never had otherwise.

“I think we can offer something to a blind child that maybe a lot of other families can’t,” said Jason.

Pandu is so much better than when they got him. After 5 years in a crib with virtually no human contact, they say Pandu was almost wild. But a year later he’s in a mainstream preschool, and he’s beginning to speak for the very first time. He’s even learning the finer points of picking out a pumpkin.  Of course, he chose a Braille one; like father like son.  “Pandu and him have always kind of had this connection,” said Lalena.

Although it’ll be years before Pandu can fully appreciate the enormity of his good fortune, there’s no doubt he understands something pretty special is happening to him.

You don’t have to be a blind man to see that.
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