Yesterday I took the afternoon off to read a book. A whole book. The complete thing from cover to cover.
It is called “The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another.” It is an increidlble story of the faith and persistence of a four year old girl to find a family for “her baby” that she left behind in a Chinese orphanage. It was a very compelling true story and I shed many tears reading the book. I learned a lot about adopting from China and was reminded of our experience in adopting from Guatemala. I look forward to getting to the library this morning so I can get online and find out if the sequel that was promised has been printed yet.
It is also a story about the power of love that is true, the power of faith that never gives up, and a real statement about how our children can change us.
One of the best parts of the book was the quotes that came before each chapter. Here are a few of the ones that most moved me:
Fear grows out o the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. -- Barbara Garrison
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese proverb
A part of us remains wherever we have been. -- Unknown.
It is a very simple secret: It is only with th eheart that one can see rightly -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
To be a star you must follow your own light, follow your own path, and never fear the darkness, for that is when the starts shine the brightest. -- Unknown
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softy because you tread on my dreams. -- W. B. Yeats
Tough people are not born; they are made when no one is there to wipe their tears. -- Unknown
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. -- Japanese proverb.
A boy is a magical creature . . . a freckle-faced, pint-sixzed, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new iwth two magic words --- “Hi Dad.” --- Alan Beck
Love is the condition in which the hapiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert A. Heinlein
All the day I held the memory of you ... ANd sowed the sky with tiny clouds of love . . . -- Robert Brooke
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin luther king, Jr.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -- Unknown.
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. -- Baha Alla
Where there is great love there are always miracles. -- Willa Cather
A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdon with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. -- Alan Beck
Hope does not ask when the darkness will end . . . Hope wonders when the light will begin. -- Susan Squellati Florence
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. -- Unknown
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