MY REUNION IS WONDERFUL ...

[This was written on FEBRUARY 5, 2008]

Heyyy I am back!!! I know it's been a good minute since the last blog. In my last blog I shared with you all that I was going to go and visit my OLDEST brother and I DID ... and I must say that we are SO MUCH ALIKE ... it's scarey! We are DIFFERENT in alot of areas but the SAME in so many areas. A lot of people who know him and were once in contact with him portrayed him to be some kind of mean and monsterous person, but I can report today and tell you that He is NOT that way.

Now when I first wrote him a letter, people warned me that he probably wouldn't write me back because he cares nothing about Family ... but I wrote from the heart and when I was done I prayed over it and sent it off ... now grant it ... it took him a minute to respond, but I just put it on GOD'S hands and left it alone. Almost 11 days later I received a letter back from my brother and it was sincere and straight to the point ... He along with our other brother, they went through so much as children. A few times throughout his letter he stated that I was blessed to have been adopted.

I literally teared when I read some of the things that they had went through as children. No child should ever have to endure what they had to endure, which helped me to understand WHY he has such a wall built up. I reassured him that I was not here to try and change him, or the way he feels or thinks, I am just here to be myself and get to know my brother. In his FIRST letter he shared that he didn't think that he would be a good brother and he didn't know how to be one, and perhaps me having a relationship with my other brother would be in my best interest ... BUT I BELIEVED GOD!!!

I wrote him back and shared with him that I sympathized with his pain and have a clearer understanding of WHY he thinks the way he does and WHY he says some of the things that he has said and WHY he has done some of the things that he has done ... but I encouraged him to know that as long as there is a GOD who is YET alive and as long as HE (my brother) has a WILLING HEART ... GOD CAN CHANGE HIM!!! ... There is NOTHING too hard for GOD!

Well in his SECOND letter ... he opened a little more and he made a lot of smiley faces within the letter ... which was a GOOD SIGN!

I have been to see him several times and everytime I have gone to see him, we just laugh and laugh and laugh. The experience and visits have been exceptionally wonderful ... and I can see the difference when I go to see him and I can read the difference in his letters. We have already made plans to spend alot of time together when he comes home. GOD IS SO GOOD!!! I have TWO BIG BROTHERS ... this is BEAUTIFUL!!!

Now every letter I have been receiving here of late, he has been addressing me as his "LIL SIS" ... Awwwww *TEAR DROPS* ... DON'T YOU TELL ME GOD CAN'T & WON'T ANSWER PRAYER!!!

One day at a Time ...

I will share more at another time ... I am just sooooooooooooo happy ... you have no idea!!!!

Until Next Tyme ... Stay BLESSED!