Our driver scheduled our pick up from our guest house at 1:00. After giving our heartfelt thanks to the staff at Greenfield Gardens, we headed for the house. Recho arrived around 2 pm. We encouraged her to stay on with Andrew, but she insisted that she spend our last day together. After we had a final staff meeting with Recho to wrap up loose ends, it was suddenly time to say our farewells. How do you say goodbye to 22 girls that call you mummy and who you know wjthout a shadow of a doubt, that even though they just met you face to face, that they love you? Often, people who are actually supposed to love you in this life choose not to, so to experience this kind of outpouring of sweet emotion and vulnerability was almost more than I could bare.
This has definitely been a journey of love and faith and trust. Authentic love doesn't have to always come from the places that we would most expect. Sometimes it comes in very surprising ways and it can come boldly and pure if even for the briefest moments in your life. But love is love and it always comes from God and it is always a gift and it can be beautiful and devastating at the same time. I am so grateful for this this gift. It has blessed me in indescribable ways too numerous to count.
What a beautiful testament.....you are loved, by so many. You have touched so many lives and I am so proud of you! But then again, I always have been. You and Matt are gifts from God to all who know you. I am so glad that you got to experience this together. Xoxoxo hope to see you soon!
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