Today is my birthday.

I’m 48 years old.

I’m still about 10-15 pounds overweight.

My daughter K just turned three and I’m trying to adopt again through the foster care system.

Today is my birthday and I feel pretty dang good about my life.

My life is great. It is full of family and friends and.....

..... there are a lot of things I’d love to change about the world.

At this stage, I think less about what I need in my life, and more about what I can do for the world, my daughter, my family.

I’m ready to be of service in a different way.

For the last ten or more months I’ve been reading Sandra’s fabulous, but sometimes heartbreaking blogs about the world.

What is happening in Cambodia, with the United Nations, UNICEF, and female infanticide.

By reading all the blogs here and other articles, I've learned more about international adoption and children around the world than I'd ever thought I'd know.

For almost five years I’ve been involved with foster care and the birth families with children in foster care. I've tried to help when I can, but sometimes it feels like a loosing battle. There are times when I feel I'm in a culture/drug war rather than a support person to the birth families of children in foster care.

At various times during my life I’ve wanted (and tried a bit) to help those less fortunate around me, and I've been involved with causes, but nothing that I've done before is calling out to me right now.

Today is my birthday. I am forty eight years old and I’ve got everything I want and more.

...but... I feel a calling.... it is time that I help in a larger, bigger way.

I do not know what that means yet.

Letter writing campaigns to senators? Knitting for peace?

Does it really help?

Sometimes the issues seem so large, so overwhelming; Can one person really make a difference?

Of course they can.

Of course.

My life goal this next year is to find a way to make a difference. Really make a difference. For one family or a dozen families or ...?

What are your passions – things that you do to help make the world a better place?

Tell me. Tell me quick.

I'm looking, I'm learning. I'm ready.

I want to help too.

Give me your thoughts.



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