Humble me

I first want to thank everyone for all the support I've been given. I have gotten some of the most amazing e mails and notes from people and I am so grateful for them. The people in my life are just too awesome and I am so grateful everyday for them. I don't know and I can't understand why I have been so blessed. I'm so blessed to have a wonderful family who has been nothing but supportive in all my crazy adventures. No one once has ever doubted or been negative, especially my parents. Always backing me up and I wouldn't be who I am without them. I have my 'Florida family' who are also amazingly supportive and I can't thank them enough!

I have my amazing boyfriend who although I know he is dying b/c he wants to be here, and if the roles were reversed I don't know how I would deal with my jealousy! HA, but he teaches me everyday with his support and love and constant excitement for what I'm doing. He is the most selfless person I know! And I guess he's holding me to all my promises that we'll come back here together! ;) (which we will!)

I have my wonderful cousin who is doing all this with me and who without, my life would be so unbelievably different in so many ways!!! That's an understatement. Someone who has taught me so much about giving and learning and absorbing everything life has to offer. She has been a soul sister to me talking about life all hours of the night!

I have had an amazing life thus far, travelling and seeing God's amazing world, witnessing His amazing creation and seeing who He is with every tiny detail that He has artistically crafted! Meeting fantastic people and living in several different cities.

I just am so deeply grateful for this life He has blessed me with. I don't deserve it. I feel so humbled when I close my eyes and see my life. This trip has expanded my vision and solidified what I want to do with my life. Giving back is the only way I can answer this gift of life God has given me. He has brought me here to show me that I can do something this tough and that I enjoy it, love it and want to do it for the rest of my life. I am happy to give my life and what I can to those who need it. I may not be able to give money, but I can hold a crying child, I can give food to a homeless person on the street.

My prayer everyday as I walk into the baby house is that God will love these children through me. I can look past the snotty noses, the illnesses, the smells, the dirt, the pain, the diarrhea down my side (sorry to be crass but it really happened!) and just love on them.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone in my life. I am humbled.

-Amanda