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Here's My Heart

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      I wish I had some breaking news to share.  I wish that China would have opened up, and let us come before another new variant and surge in COVID cases.  I wish that I hadn't gathered some semblance of hope that our missionary friends would be getting into the orphanage to see Katie in July only to be let down again.  I wish that as I was praying with my girls the other night their honest feelings wouldn't have had to be that it has been so long now that it is getting hard to picture being Katie's sister.       I am not going to lie.  This is REALLY hard!  So hard that I found myself this past month guarding my heart against more hurt.  I so badly wanted our missionary friends to be able to get vaccinated and into the orphanage to see Katie.  They did get vaccinated in July, but due to another surge in COVID cases, their city in China is shut down until sometime in August.  When I found this out about 2 weeks ago, I felt numb.  I didn't realize it at first.  But as