Yesterday I heard a
new song…from our daughter. Freely and from her heart, she sang to us.
Beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful. A couple of times she covered up her face out of
embarrassment, but she kept singing. When finished, several times she said,
“Mom, cántame una canción” (sing me a song), and I couldn’t think of one in
Spanish. But then Papi rescued me by recommending we sing one that we know from
church, one that means so much to us because it talks about who God is. We—who
are definitely not known for our melodic voices—sang “Forever Reign.” And I
believe that it, too, was beautiful. We were singing to the Lord AND to our
daughter. She smiled the entire time, a smile that seems to erase all of the
hard moments….such as afterward when we had to talk to her about being nice to
her brother. Such as the struggles she has faced in her past that want to
define her. Such as a decade of uncertainty and pain.
My heart is singing
today. Sing with me.
What a blessing this journey has been! Thanks for the update! made me happy and smiling now!
ReplyDeleteps - we did our immigration fingerprints today and next week be both finally have our pysc evals... and I did my physical exam today... 4 vials of blood later and a promise to come back monday for a tb skin test.... fun times... haven't been poked this much in 3 1/2 years!!!!!