Sorrow and hope

Friends & family, I am pretty sure I have shared with you some of the story of the Musser family, who adopted Katie and most recently Tommy.  If you are not familiar with their family story, I urge you to stop by Susanna's blog and read the links on the right sidebar that detail Katie's story, Tommy's story, etc.

God has used this family and particularly that mom in SUCH a huge way in the past several years.  These people are the hands and feet of Jesus.  Their love and their devotion to justice for the unloved and forgotten children in one former Soviet-bloc country have had a world-wide impact of Good.

And tragically, this past week their son Tommy died in an accidental drowning.

So, so so so sad.  I am sure this family is suffering so much.

Here is the link to Susanna's blog in case you want to read about their family or leave a loving comment: The Blessing of Verity.

If you feel led to show your love for this family in a tangible way, please read this post by Adeye at her blog: No Greater Joy Mom

But most importantly--if your heart is breaking for this family, or for the plight of the older special needs orphans in the world, please read this last post and see how you can give hope to two other families who right now are so close to bringing home their adoptive children home:  from Micah Six Eight.

So much love and wonderful things happening in the world. So much to celebrate. And still so much hardship and pain.  If you would like to help ease the hardship or pain of any of these families through these links, more joy to you.  If you are led to share any of the stories within your own friend circles, please do.  Esp. the last link.  Helping more unloved, neglected kids get into loving families--the Mussers would be grateful.

Much love to you all today.