This week, I rented a Veggie Tales audio CD from the library. I also bought a Veggie Tales coloring book. Yes, I do have children in this house 9 days out of 10. But um - I'd be lying if I said I obtained either of those things entirely for them... *snicker*. Yes, I love Veggie Tales... oh so very much.
One tape is called "Where's God when I'm Scared?" and features a song called "God is Bigger". It goes a bit like this:
God is bigger than the boogie man.
He's bigger than Godzilla and the monsters on TV.
Oh, God is bigger than the boogie man,
And he's watching out for you and me.
Okay, so the actual tape is about being afraid of monsters, and the dark, but, I say it still applies, and it's been stuck on my mind all week, despite there being a million fabulous Veggie songs to sing... maybe because it's so appropriate.
Earlier I shared with you the plight of the children in one orphanage, the one where little Katie came from. That post is here.
I asked you to pray. I asked you to pray that God would move mountains for these children, because although some are coming home, they leave behind them over 200 other children with no one to call Mama or Daddy. And truly, to get these children the care they so desperately needed (as many of them are in a similar condition to that which Katie was when she came home), HUGE mountains needed to be moved. HUGE, friends. Careful decisions had to be made, families had to keep quiet when they wanted to shout from the rooftops, those most intimately involved in the process had to strive for what might seem to some like the unattainable - and yet they persevered. And the rest of us, we waited fervently on our knees in prayer for these dear children, the least of these, whom God - and whom basic human kindness - has commanded us to help. Everyone pushed on.
Because they know... GOD IS BIGGER.
And on this day I can say to you, friends, that indeed he IS. The specifics of the situation are somewhat confusing and better spelled out by Katie's mama Susanna on her blog - please read there if you are interested in knowing more than I am sharing.
But in short - when it was discovered, as many of us suspected, that many more of the children in this orphanage were desperately in need of immediate medical care, particularly hospitalizations and surgeries, that could not be funded in their home country, a medical fund was set up to finance their care - to save their lives.
What, you might think, could we do, to possibly make a dent in the extensive care needed by the over 200 children remaining in this orphanage? How could we, half a world away, do anything?
Well, my friends, because... GOD IS BIGGER!
On February 25, the conditions of the children were shared on one mom's blog and the fund was set up. Today, March 15, NINETEEN DAYS after that post, the Pleven Orphans Medical Care Fund sits at over... are you ready for this?
Are you sure?
$26,000
Nope, I'm not kidding. Not one little bit. Now three more children desperately in need of care have been taken to the hospital for treatment. Others still have been identified. Help is still needed. But I come here today not to ask for your help (although if you are moved to do so, I can think of no worthier cause), but to tell you simply that GOD IS BIGGER!
He makes the impossible, possible. He rescues those considered 'beyond help'. He is moving mountains for the children of Pleven. Won't you join me in witnessing this amazing event? Won't you stare with me in wonder as lives - lives - are SAVED? As the unadoptable are listed, one by one, for adoption, and brought to forever families, one by one, until they are all home? Friends, it is because I love you and I want you to feel the deep sense of peace that I feel watching this spectacle, that I ask you to share in it. If you are so inclined, pray. Certainly we can't have too much of that. If you are not - then just watch. Watch, and be amazed, at what so many deemed impossible happening right before our eyes. Yes, see the sadness that was, that existed and still exists in this place - but then see the redeeming joy, and know that this is just the beginning. That is a joy that will go right to your heart - I know, because sick though I am, I sit here beaming as I write this post.
I will continue to share about these and other children, but in the meantime if you'd like more detailed updates on the children of Pleven, these two blogs, to which I earlier linked, are ones to follow:
The Blessing of Verity: http://theblessingofverity.com/
Only 1 Mom: http://www.only1mom.com/
Oh, and yeah - all you Veggie Tales loving mamas, you may send your cards of thanks for the week-long earbug on their way any time ;)
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