Blessings

The Last few days have been a break from blogging land. It was time for me to get spiritually fed & focused on what should come first in my life. I think my blogposts will be more sporadic so if you read my blog still I apologize. Angel Tree starts Thursday so I might be posting a lot more often for November but if not please know I am still alive. Its just been hard to quite put into words what I want to say & talk about. This past week I have been so blessed, I don't think I have ever cried so much in one week! These past two weeks have been pure awesomeness! From the birth of my nephew to Celine surpassing her match, to so much more! Wednesday as I was back scrolling through the blogposts Patti wrote about Celine I noticed a new comment on this post & the tears streamed down my face cause this was a comment from my brother.

I am so proud to have sister in Leah H She is kind and caring and generous through and through. Being her brother has allowed me to see her and hear her cry out to those around her begging for support for Celine and many other children who need help. Because of how much she has moved me in her passion, and because of the incredibly reasonable challenge that you, Ms. Patti, have presented on your blog: I want to help. As a college kid, I can't do much, but I just want to say that what you said was powerful, and it rings true in my head. 
So keep pushing and don't give up hope; your words have broken through to one more person.

I have been so blessed to have such a caring brother in Matt & miss him bunches!!!

God has given me so many blessings in my life & looking forward to many to come!
I pray Celine too will receive blessings in whomever her family might be someday!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL YOUR BLESSINGS THESE PAST FEW WEEKS ESPECIALLY FOR CELINE!!! I PRAY HER FAMILY WILL REALIZE WHEN THEY SEE HER PHOTO THAT SHE IS THEIRS. I PRAY THAT HER HEART WILL BE OPEN TO RECEIVING THAT FAMILY! PLEASE, CONTINUE TO GROW HER GRANT SO THAT NOTHING STANDS IN THE WAY OF HER FAMILY GETTING HER. I UPLIFT THE GOVERNMENT IN HER COUNTRY TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS SO FAMILIES ARE NOT DETERRED AWAY FROM HER REGION. AMEN!!!

Hip hip hooray!

DID YOU SEE WHO MET HER MATCHING GRANT? NOT ONLY THAT BUT SURPASSED IT BY OVER $500!!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS & SUPPORT FOR CELINE!! ONCE THE $5,000 IS IN HER GRANT SHE WILL  HAVE A TOTAL OF OVER $20,000! THATS ABOUT HALF THE COST OF HER ADOPTION PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS!! Just you wait Angel Tree is coming & my goal is for her grant to soar even more maybe surpass the $1,000 AT goal for her!

When you say Yes to God

Trusting God is not very easy, Saying Yes to what God has planned is not easy but you obey & listen. God broke my heart for the orphans & told me I needed to do something to help. Was it hard when I was only 18 years at the time I started when I had little money? Most would say I am such & such age, I am too young to do anything to help. If I had listened to what I use to think would I be who I am today? Through many trials & tears days I would wonder why God? Celine, is so precious why has she waited this long for a family? But God has instilled it in my heart for a reason.
Last week my mom had suggested to me not to post my links so much on Facebook & to let it sink in for a few days so I did. That's when I got an idea formed I had been praying for Celine & had heard of others doing 24 hr prayer vigils so why not do one for her? So I took a step of faith doing it & the very next day I get lots of notifications on fb tagging me so I go look at each one then I spotted the one that said Go read your email. I go to my email box & their is a message from my friend Patti with the title God Hears Your Prayers. I wonder what it is about? As soon as I read the message my mouth dropped & tears poured out of my eyes. Two donors had donated HUGE amounts which meant Celine was about $400 away from reaching her matching grant! Read Gods awesome story about that here. Yesterday was also great as Celines grant took soaring! Now only $122.40 stands in the way! God is so awesome! At the beginning of the month I was unsure about the matching grant & was trying so hard to figure out how to do a fundraiser when I was not planning on doing anything til Angel Tree starts in November. I was overwhelmed & God knew I needed to just not do fundraising this month. I want to send a HUGE THANKS TO MY PARTNER IN AWESOMENESS PATTI for hosting the Nikon Giveaway & for being such a good encourager to me even when it was slow moving. I can never say THANK YOU ENOUGH TO THE DONOR OF THE CAMERA & $5,000 MATCH!!! When you say Yes to God it can be the best thing even if you don't know it yet! Love you Sweet Celine & will do anything to help bring you home with a family! I managed to donate $5 this week, will you do the same for one special little girl who has took my breath away? Your $5 will be matched so it will really be $10! Let's get this done & surpass the match!!!

The Miracle of Prayer

The power of prayer, wow it works wonders folks! Have I mentioned its free & only costs of your time? 5 days ago I wrote a blogpost about leaving it all in Gods hands & trusting him. While I wrote that blogpost Celines grant jumped right before my eyes! Right not too long after that I got an idea from talking with my mom.  I started thinking why not do a day of prayer for her? I barely had time to put it together or make a spreadsheet of hours in which to pray for Celine but I just made do with what I had the time to do. So I setup the event, & sent the invites out thinking no one would respond. Boy was I wrong! Out of 129 ivites sent out, 30 (that includes me) said yes I will pray. I tried as best as I could to pray from midnight-1am PST but I was on the way home from my trip & trying to make sure my mom stayed awake & was super tired myself but I prayed. Yesterday all around the USA 30 people were praying on behalf of Celine. Just that gives me shivers, this morning when I got up & checked my facebook I found several postings by my friend telling me to go check out Celines grant & then to go check my email. I was shocked! Last night Celines grant was $12,100.90, today I looked & it was $13,000.90! It had grown by $900 overnight! That folks is the power of prayer! God is so awesome right now! Looking forward to whats to come! Prayer is just so precious, if you can't do anything else for the orphans can you pray for them? Celine thanks you for all the prayers! They are working!

Just keep on swimming

Everytime I see Celines face it just makes me wonder

WHY NOT HER?

The past few days I have seen ZERO DONATIONS. It breaks my heart not seeing it move but I keep on as Dory says "Just Keep Swimming"! I'm praying for hearts to be changed & life's to be touched for Celines sake. Trusting in God is no easy task but after sending a message to my friend asking her to pray then rereading some of my older blogposts I was slapped in the face that I should trust him! He knows if Celine will meet her matching grant or not, he knows when she will find her family, he knows when her adoption will be fully funded. 

Tonight I lay it all down cause I know that God says this in the bible.

Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

God has a plan for Celine, & I will trust him with that.

I know she is not just a photo but a real person. This is from someone who recently got to meet Celine:

• "In July we traveled to meet our daughter for the first time. While we were there we were able to meet Celine. She came up to us and gave me a hug and stroked the side of my face. She had 2 braids with big bows on the ends and she looks to have thinned out some. She looked very cute and healthy. When we were leaving she blew us kisses goodbye.The institution she is in is a very good one but the orphanage director is very excited to have children adopted from his orphanage. He has said that even though he loves the children he knows they would do so much better with a family."
  

  

  She is a REAL PERSON just like you & me! I will say that from my friends report she looks a lot different from her most recent photo & is not as chunky. She still has her spunky personality like in the photos of her smiling! 
  Won't someone get her please?
  

  

  Tears streaming down my face it just jumped $180 right before my eyes! Molly Conley is getting pied yahoo!!!!
  Is God awesome or what? Please keep on praying, donating, or sharing!!! Whatever you do helps get her closer to finding her family! For all the ways you can help Celine go here & here!

My story, my passion

Today as I type I was not sure what to write. I erased the first sentence several times as I pondered the questions in my head but then I decided to be graceful & not pound at least not today. I'm going to tell you my story cause this is who I am. Ever since I was a little girl I always pictured myself adopting someday (still do!) but never could imagine a whole new world that I would discover in July 2010. If your new to my blog you may not realize I have a sister with Down Syndrome. Her name on my blog is Pink Princess. She is  older than me by just about 4 years. I love my sister dearly even if we don't get along like any other siblings do 24/7. She is expected to be like any other member of our family doing household chores. We don't treat her any different. Partly because of Pink Princess, one special child would not be here today & who knows if I would have discovered my passion, the thing I am driven for.

Thing is everyone has a story to tell & a passion/cause to live for. I live for God & he has chosen to give me a heart for the special needs orphans. At times it is difficult knowing if anyone is reading or sharing your posts but you continue to write cause you know these kids are worth it. Lately I am just exhausted & I don't know if my writing just means to you the same thing repeated yet again. This is my passion & I don't care if I annoy you or not. That's why they call it freedom of speech! These kids simply don't have that freedom or voice. That's why I chose to be a voice to them!

Reeces Rainbow is my passion & I am not going to stop yelling! Even when things are slowly moving with Celines matching grant.

What if she does not reach her matching grant? Still I press on!

When I am having a bad day & am depressed. Yes, I go on!

            Celine is counting on not only ME BUT YOU TOO!!!

She is my beautiful butterfly, that I would go to the moon & back to get if I could. My point is today if you have a passion, LIVE FOR IT! My passion, is caring for orphans like God wants us to do. Whats yours?

How $5 can make a life difference!

First of all if you think I can't do much & I wish I could do more or that $5 can't make a difference well I am here to tell you Yes, it can! I can tell you from a young adult with not much money. For several months now I have had to force myself not to go overboard on things or when something comes when I feel lead to give I say I can only do $5 but I know it does make a difference. Had I said my $5, $10, $25, $30, etc was too little would these kids named be home?
"Kameron" 
Makenzie ("Lydiah" on RR)
Quinton
Lyla ("Lilliana" on RR)
Olivia 
Easton
The Unroe five-Aleshia, Keith, Anita, Nicholas, & Anhnja
Charlotte
Misha
Molly
Jessa & Caleb
"M", "C", & "R"
Elisha
Paisley 
And SO MANY MORE!!!
Every little bit makes the life changing difference to an orphan! So whether you can hit a simple share button on facebook or donating $5 know your making a difference to one precious little girl!

Praise God for the $55 that came in tonight for Celine! I was starting to be disappointed about today for her but I cast it aside & glad I did not choose to worry about it! $45 is what stands in the way of Molly Conley getting pied! Celine says pretty please? 

Now to tell you all about a fundraiser that I have been signed up to do for awhile & have never had any bites on it. Do you love to digital scrapbook? Let me tell you about My Memories Digital Scrapbook program!

I have loved using this program to all sorts of things with it!

Time Line Covers for facebook!

Want to get this awesome program?

1. Order the My Memories 3 software with this code 

STMMMS49256 at checkout 
2. You will recieve a $10 discount from that code & will recieve a $10 store credit.  
3. Everytime that code is used I get $20 which I will be donating all proceeds to Celine

Your $10 store credit is money you can spend on scraping kits but be sure to check the freebie section on their website!

If I can get 3 persons to purchase it using my code I will be entered in a drawing for $50! If I win I will donate that to Celine!

Make sure not to forget all the ways to help Celine listed here!