What is impossible?

I have now been back over two weeks....things seem back to "normal," and my youngest is now back to telling me "Go away" which is his trademark for "I love you but I am independent!" Our team has been meeting and emailing to prepare for an upcoming Sunday school class where we will share the details of our trip, and discuss Our Covenant's Call ministry. It has been very rewarding. cathartic, the beginning of processing what our trip was about, whatever word you would like to choose, it has been great! We are making a slide show and Shannon and I have been sending back and forth ideas and emails. As I look over each of the pictures, it takes me back to Hohhot, back to those who have no voice for them. Their eyes each have a huge story locked behind them, full of loss, pain, emptiness, loneliness, hunger for love....yet their eyes still have HOPE. Hope that they will find safety in their orphanage, hope that they can get an education, hope that we will be back in that yellow bus the next day, hope that the new orphanage will have heat, hope that they will find love in a forever family. Some of us might think it would be impossible for us to have hope in that situation....alone, uncertain of why you are in this place, wondering why your parents left you, what will you do next? Is there a next, and if there is, is it better than what is in the now? How can one face these questions and still have HOPE? Only by love from above....watching over them closely. I read a quote by Hudson Taylor before the trip but now understand it even more, " I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." After the first day at the orphanage, we thought it was impossible, but we were wrong. We came away from Hohhot in agreement that we should go back......so, what is impossible? It would be impossible to NOT go back and look these kids in the eyes again and say we came back....to be with you and to treasure YOU. You are important to us, and you are NOT impossible to love. When I look my children in the eyes, and see their wonder, love and HOPE, I want them to know everyday, every minute just how much they are loved, how important they are, and how loving they can be, and this is something I believe every child should have. It is NOT an impossible hope from me. As I have said before, we can all do SOMETHING. Please think and pray about it. HOPE.

Love,
Eve