Birthing a Vision

I'm excited for this new thing the Lord is using me for. I feel like I am in the early stages of pregnancy when the baby is too small to make out any of its tiny, developing features and your thoughts are almost entirely occupied with the idea of this baby. You are particularly cautious with all you do and your imagination runs wild with wonderings of just what this creature will look like, sound like, smell like. 

No, I'm not pregnant but I am carrying the beginnings of a vision. And just as there was not much I did to progress the development of Evangeline's life within the womb, I am trusting God to do most of the forming and creating of these ideas. 

I have a desire, a strong desire to love more children than I myself have the physical capacity to love and care for. From that passion, desire, and love came a vision to create a place where children who have not known what it is to be loved and cared for will meet those people willing to give their lives and their love to them. This will come in the form of an orphanage or a transitional home, I'm not sure yet what all that will look like.

I think childhood is a precious thing and far too many of us are never given the opportunity to have one. How can we understand what Christ meant when He said, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:3) if there is no longer a differentiation between child and adult? If children are stripped of their childhood then we as adults lose inspiration, imagination, joy, laughter, humility, and lessons that we should learn from them. 

If you have a passion for these little lives please pray for me and the fruition of this vision. I am praying for more clarity to the vision, already praying for the staff and volunteers, and board of directors though I don't know yet who those people will be.