Our Beautiful Sana

// December 13th, 2009 // Loux Family News

In our previous blog post, we were talking about how precious our family support staff is and how thankful we are for each of them!  For some reason, one of our Family Support Staff member’s (Claire) pictures didn’t post when I posted the blog post.  Claire is so precious to us and I just wanted you to get a chance to go back and view the post once more to see her beautiful face and to know how thankful we are for her as well!  We love Claire so much and are blown away by her servant’s heart!

The following  account below is from our family support staff member “Kristen”.  Sophia and Sana performed in their school’s Christmas play last week (Michaela got sick the last minute and couldn’t participate) … the rest of the family attended.  The date had been changed and was earlier than the previous years so Derek and I were very disappointed that we were going to miss the girl’s Christmas program!  We will get to see it on video so that helps a little.

Kristen’s account of something very special that happened:

Tonight I took some short little videos of Sana singing–she was beyond
adorable.  Sana had seen me up front taking pictures, but didn’t know about the videos.
When I told her that I had taken them, she lit up and exclaimed “Oh good then my mommy can see
them.”  Talk about melt your heart!!!  I said, “Yes, your mommy will love to see it!”

As we were leaving home to come to the performance tonight, Sana looked at herself in the mirror and said “I am
different.”  I could tell she meant that in a positive way, but wasn’t sure
what she meant.  So I asked her about it and she said “I feel different” as she studied
herself in her pretty outfit.  So I said, “Oh, do you feel really beautiful in that pretty dress?”
With her eye’s beaming she said “Yes!”  … moments I wouldn’t trade for the world!

At the end of the show.. the kids sang a song “There Are No Orphans In God’s
Family” … Sana was on my lap and Sasha was on Renee’s mom’s lap. Sasha kept
reaching over to hold Sana’s hand throughout the night… so as this last
song was sung, it about moved me to tears because these two precious
treasures, placed in such a wonderful family this year,  were holding hands with
each other.  Sasha loved the tune so much he raised his other free hand in
worship and Sana was humming aloud to the finale.   Joyful little hearts!!!

Thanks so much Kristen, for sharing this with us!  Only God would devise such a heartmelting plan as to take the little orphan crippled boy from rural Ukraine and the orphaned bright eyed South Pacific princess, put them into the same family as brother and sister, and have them sit together in Missouri, hold hands and sing “There Are No Orphans In God’s Family”.  There is no story teller like our God!