Sponsor a child! :)

So.. I sure hope some of you have considered sponsoring a child. :) It's awesome! Tomorrow we're taking sponsor kids to the zoo! They are sooo excited! Honestly, I sponsor a child through World Vision because I have been doing before I knew about Empower a Child. So, I get to take Melissa (Mama Lola)'s sponsor child and her two sisters. I'm so excited. :)

Today was mainly spent helping with sponsor child stuff. Y'all, it takes SOOO much work and sacrifice for just ONE child! My goodness... I had NO idea. I appreciate every letter, picture, and drawing from my sponsor child soooo much more. We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but we still have a decent amount of work to finish. 

We did get to play with some of the neighborhood kids though. Enjoy the smiling faces below. I hope you can feel the endless amount of love the kids give us. :) 

My dear friend gave me a new Bible in January, so I've been kind of doing the one year Bible. I'm a little ADD, so some days I'll just do a random devotional from somewhere instead. My prayer has been that I would read the Bible like a new Christian would.. With excitement about what's to come and soaking up every word. I just read the story in John where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. The last verse says, "Jesus said to them, 'Take off the grave clothes and let him go.'" Y'all, Lazarus was set FREE in more ways than one. Jesus wants us to take off the grave clothes and the things that are keeping us tied down and in the tomb. He wants us to go.. Go live for Him. Go live a life free from doubt, insecurities, fear, jealousy.. The second I read that verse I started singing that song, "There is power in the blood of Jesus... So break every chain.. Break every chain." 

Praise The Lord

Auntie Brooke