1. Name the most significant person in your life
Andy
2. What is your most important role?
Mother
3. Who is your greatest support group?
The women in my Connect Group
4. Your heritage.
American
5. Your favorite place?
My home
6. Activity I enjoy most?
Being with Andy, social activities with friends
7. Knowledge
(this represents info you use to complete everyday tasks)
8. Resources
(all material possessions, everything you own that is familiar)
9. Cultural Information
(everything you know about your culture..language, food, customs, norms)
10. Faith & Values
(your concepts of right and wrong, your religious beliefs)
Now what 4 things from that list could you do without? Cross them off.
1. Name the most significant person in your life
Andy
2. What is your most important role?
Mother
5. Your favorite place?
My home
7. Knowledge
(this represents info you use to complete everyday tasks)
9. Cultural Information
(everything you know about your culture..language, food, customs, norms)
10. Faith & Values
(your concepts of right and wrong, your religious beliefs)
Everything will be okay, don't worry...cross off two more.
1. Name the most significant person in your life
Andy
2. What is your most important role?
Mother
7. Knowledge
(this represents info you use to complete everyday tasks)
10. Faith & Values
(your concepts of right and wrong, your religious beliefs)
Trust me, this is in your best interest....cross off 2 more.
1. Name the most significant person in your life
Andy
2. What is your most important role?
Mother
10. Faith & Values
(your concepts of right and wrong, your religious beliefs)
Annnnd, that's where I bailed. I can't cross off anything else. But internationally adopted children are asked to do this very thing. They often leave all that they know. The food, the language, the culture, the sights and smells, their friends, their caregivers and comforters, their homes, their religion (or lack thereof)...all left behind.
We know that, like in our case, without international adoption, these children would remain orphans, kicked out of the system at age 14 or 16. In many countries, the kids end up in the sex trafficking world. They lack education and have no real future. Katelyn would never have a permanent family in Taiwan.
But that doesn't lessen the difficulties of the transition and the grieving that follows. I pray often that God will guide us in helping her through this process, and give us the words and actions to say and do. I know Katelyn is resilient and smart. It's how she got to where she is today and that will serve her well in the coming months. And it never hurts for the adults in her life to remember what it took for her to get here.
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