Referral of Clara
 
Family
Clara
China
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We're Home


 

 

Li Juan - "Juan Juan"

(Clara Li Juan Reeder)

 

 

 

Li Juan lives in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture,

 Jilin Province

http://goasia.about.com/cs/china/a/3rdkorea.htm

She lives in Holt sponsored foster care

 

holtintl.org

 

Her birthdate is August 17, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

On September 1, 2005 (a beautiful day spent ferrying to Martha's Vineyard, riding the flying horses carousel, strolling the gingerbread cottage lined streets of the old Methodist Campground in Oak Bluffs, and shopping at The Black Dog) we found out we have a new daughter!!! Li Juan is living in foster care sponsored by our adoption agency (Holt Int'l) in Yanbian, Jilin. Our precious and beautiful daughter turned 2 on August 17, 2005. Our letter of intent (LOI) should go to China by September 16 and we should travel 2 - 4 months after that to bring her home. Jilin is in Northern China so we all will be experiencing a winter adoption trip again - but even colder this time! We can't wait to see and hold Li Juan. Emma and Lilla are both excited about their new mei mei (little sister). Lilla will now get to be a jie jie (big sister) like Emma. We are blessed to have been chosen to be Li Juan's parents. We hope to be traveling to China before the end of 2005. YEAH!!! Please follow our trip and please pray for Li Juan and for us, her new family. God bless you!

 

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

Listen to song sample: http://1800sunstar.com/ztracks/offscan/IZ/01ma_facingfuture14.mp3

 
 

 

There Is Only One

 

There is only one person like you in all of this great big world
And you are just who

 God made you to be
Whether a boy or a girl
Whether you are black or white or some beautiful 

color in-between

No matter your shape or size - you're as perfect as anything I've ever seen
Your Mom and your Dad 

they are so glad you are part of their family
There is only one 

who loves you more
He is your Father in heaven - He is the Lord

-Twila Paris

 

 

~

 

Psalm 139:13-18

 

You made all the delicate, 

inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother's womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous-

and how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book. 

Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God!
They are innumerable!

I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!

 

~

 

Chinese Proverb

 

An invisible red thread 

connects those who are destined to meet. 

The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.

 

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