\u201cSatisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.\u201d<\/p>Psalm\u202c \u202d90:14\u202c \u202dNIV\u202c\u202c<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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One year ago today, we walked up the path to our sunny yellow house, carrying our newest addition. Our eyes heavy, overtired from twenty-four hours of sleepless travel across this great big world. Yet our heart\u2019s were happy, hopeful, light as we opened our ocean blue door to a new season as a family of seven. Joy and celebration welcoming us home, embracing us in the arms of four eager siblings, their excitement pulsating from every pore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just nine days earlier, we made the journey across Bulgaria over sunflower kissed hills. On that happy day<\/a>, we brought our daughter out from the the only four walls she had known into the glorious light of a future bright with possibly, love, new life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These last twelve months have been packed full with laughter, love, living. Our daughter Hope bringing so much joy to our family. She radiates light, a song always in her heart. I can\u2019t imagine our life without her. She is a rich gift that is celebrated each day in our home. Still unfurling, revealing more and more of her God given light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These last twelve months have also been packed full with appointments with specialists and therapists. Hundreds of questions, filling both heart and head on how to best care for Hope\u2019s needs. Doubts and uncertainty crowding out any peace over what the future holds. Fighting hard to see things for what they truly are in the here and now. Seeking out beauty in the mundane and messy moments. Rediscovering joy<\/a> that has felt all but lost amidst a season where uncertainty and heartache also loom heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just beyond the dark clouds the sun still shines bright and constant. Joy can be fought for and found even on the darkest of days. Ones heart having the capacity to \u00a0simultaneously\u00a0hold within it both sadness and joy. Jesus, the One aquatinted with our sorrow\u2014 ever present, always near, fighting for us, bearing with us. Our joy, our hope, our Victor. His glorious light shining, constant and bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n