As we walk through this adoption process I am haunted by the reality that adopting two children is not going to help Congo as a whole. That's not why we are adopting. But, the more we learn, and we've been devoted students, we know that we have to try to help in some way. Congo is an amazing country with so much potential. However, Congo is broken. The brokenness is not really even their own doing. The history of what has happened to that country is appalling. I don't believe it is going to be fixed by us Americans. I believe it is going to take someone with a big Congolese heart from that country to make changes.
I saw this video today and it sparked something in me. It reminded me of the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr's speech "I have a dream..." That phrase alone holds so much potential... so much power. Vision changes the world. Without vision people suffer. It's not just the big dreams, it's the little ones too. This video shows teenage girls who have never thought about what they wanted to be when they grow up. They didn't even know that thought was possible.
Let's dream. Dream Big! Let's teach our children to dream.
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