You Say

hi, my name is Halley. here's some little things about me. I absolutely love soccer. I am on an NCFC soccer league. I play challenge in soccer. I have 12 wonderful teammates and they are just like sisters to me. I love writing and drawing! when I grow up I want to be a professional soccer player. and then when I retire I want to be a teacher/author. I have a best friend named Katie. and a lot of other friends that make me smile. I'm all smiles everyday. now enough about me, it' time to talk about why we made this website and why we made the book. some of this stuff is personal. i wouldn't mind sharing it with you. when me and and Reid were at Laurel Park Elementary school there was this girl who made me and Reid feel like we didn't belong. somehow she found out how me and Reid were adopted and made fun of us for it. we told teachers and friends and no one did anything. one day we told our mom and she said that was a horrible, horrible thing. we tried to find books about adoption but all of them were little kid's books. we finally made a book about it and then, of course, we made this website. I have never told anyone about this but I started feeling further and further away from god everyday. and this was recent. one little song made me feel 100 times closer to god then ever. it was the song "you say" by Lauren Daigle. here are some lyrics that i love.

"i keep fighting voices in my mind that say i'm not enough. every single lie that tells me i will never measure up, am i just the sum of every high and every low, remind me once again just who i am because i need to know. you say i am loved when i can't feel a thing. you say i am strong when i think i am weak. you say i am held when i am falling short. and when i don't belong you say i am yours. i believe, i believe, what you say to me, i believe."

the minute i heard that song i burst into tears. i listen to that song a lot. one night i heard that song on the radio and my dad and mom were on a date night to celebrate my dad's birthday. they said don't mind the dishes we'll do them when we get home, and i did them listening to that song. the slightest things, or even gestures can make us feel like we are loved. you are loved, the lord put you here for a reason. i used to think god took me away from my birth mom for no reason. he didn't. it would have been hard if i was still with her. now that she is older, she has two beautiful children. when you feel sad, discouraged, lonely, unloved, look up, pray, you are loved by the strongest king in the world. our lord, king of kings. you are loved, you are strong. just believe.