I want to change the world.

Do you ever feel like that?

Lately God has really been creating a super special place in my heart for orphans.

My heart is seriously breaking for them, and I just want to "move" and DO something!

It's been a pretty gradual process.

I've known since a few years ago that I really have a passion in my heart to one day be a foster parent and to also adopt children. The spark first started for me after reading the book "Sex God" by Rob Bell, (which I never did finish). At one point in the book he talked about a woman who was completely selfless and who opened her home to so many foster children. Not just any children though, some had intense special needs, they were the children that no one else seemed to want. God loves these children more than we could ever know and He has a call for them to be loved as well.

Ever since reading that, I've known that it's something I would really like to pursue one day.

Last year I read the book "Choosing to See" by Mary Beth Chapman and was reminded how adoption is so much like God's story for us as His children. He adopted US. It's SO awesome, and special and I really feel like God is calling me to it.

I'm telling you, there is a BIG passion growing in this heart of mine.

My first week at camp I had a little girl in my group who was about 7 or 8 who was adopted from Ethiopia. I thought it was the COOLEST. thing. ever. and it was basically the highlight of my week. She really took a liking to me, and I was trying to ask her about her family and her home country when she brought it up. It sounded like she was adopted not long ago, like maybe a few years. She still has her accent and she's still learning English. (it was beyond adorable to hear her call my nickname "Karebear") It might seem small but I feel like God puts those little things in our lives for a reason.

There is a woman at my church who has four little girls of her own, and she is a adopting a little boy from Bulgaria. It's so special and it's had me looking into Reese's Rainbow, an organization that places mostly orphans with special needs into their forever homes.

I hope I get to work with them some day!

Hannah's Hope is another one that seems pretty awesome.

I don't even know how it happen but yesterday I was surfing the web and came across SO many adoption stories and watched sooo many of those "Gotcha Day" videos. (and of course I was bawling my eyes out at each one.)

I'm already kind of planning (wayyy tentatively) to go on some sort of mission trip next summer. I would love to visit Maria's Big House of Hope in China. We'll see where God leads...

Hopefully my future hubby will have the same passion I do. ;) I'm praying that he does!