Back in December, we wrote about our first sponsor child Irfan. At the same time we also sponsored a girl, but the correspondance from Plan Canada about the girl got lost somewhere in the courier world. So we followed up by phone and Plan Canada sent us another information package about Rabia!

Rabia is 12 years old, lives in Pakistan with her parents and four other siblings. You can find out a little more about Rabia by reading the text in the following images.

To our very pleasant surprise, in today’s mail we received hand written letters from both Irfan and Rabia. Irfan had some help writing his letter because, according to the letter, his writing isn’t legible. However, Rabia wrote the letter by herself! We’re so proud of both of them! We can’t wait to write back.








(Sorry about the quality of the iPhone pics; We were too excited and eager to blog about it!)

Love. It’s hard to contain it in a definition. What’s it’s not though, is a statement. A combination of words thrown together in empty shells of conversations. It’s organic. It grows. I don’t mean it grows in strength or intensity, but that it lives. It ages. In that growth may dwell moments of intense weakness, where a mere whisper may cause it to vanish altogether. And out of those weak moments, giant spirits of hope evolve. When you can’t fix things, but only know that in the morning, you will try again. You will simply try. And love … will continue to grow.