I will not leave you as orphans..

 "I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you" John 14:18

This has to be one of my favorite verses in the Bible.  What a promise. 

 I can tell you how much I deserve to be an orphan, left out of the family of God.  I am so vile. My thoughts are evil and my motives self serving.  I choose to live out of God's will at times because what he calls me to do doesn't "suit" me.  How or why he chose me, I'll never understand, but I'm so thankful he did. 

I go back to this verse alot when thinking about Maisie's adoption.  I can't imagine how her life has bounced from day to day, year to year not knowing where she was going to end up.  Just passing time back and forth and assuming that is what every one's life is like that.  

What breaks my heart even more is that there are so many more that are orphaned and need someone to come to them.  They need someone who will look beyond what is convenient and conventional.  They need people who will invest in them and in their lives.  They need us. 

Christ full filled his promise of not leaving us as orphans and how blessed we are.