Letter to Alison

Dear Allie,

It's midnight, and I can't sleep. The shuttle that is taking your Mom and I to the airport will be here in three hours, and even though we are all packed, I'm just so excited to get on that airplane tomorrow to come pick you up.

It's funny, I love you so much, yet I've never met you. I've dreamed about fatherhood for so many years, but have never had the privilege. But now God is giving me the desire of my heart.....He is allowing me to love and serve you, my dear Alison, for the rest of my life. I hope I am up to the task! :)

I want to give you so much. I want to give you a beautiful home in which to live in, food and shelter to protect you, education to enrich you, freedom and opportunity to do whatever you choose to do with your life. I'm so glad that you will have a chance to grow up in America, so you can have all those things. And I am glad that I live in such a rich nation that allows me to give you those things. We are both very blessed.

But most of all, I want to give you my love. My unconditional love...I want to show you how much your Heavenly Father loves you, by being a loving and caring earthly father. I want to model that father-child relationship. I so want you to be proud of me, to want to spend time with me, even when you become a teenager, and would rather hang out with your friends at the mall, rather than spend time with your "boring" parents. :)

But truth be told, I think you will teach me more about love than I will teach you. You will be able to reveal to me what true unconditional love is, and give me a taste of the deep love that God has for me, because you see, I am His child, much like you are my child.

So I'm so looking forward to holding you in my arms next Monday. Please know that your Mom and I will cherish you always, and that you are so worth every effort of ours to fly half way around the world to get you.

Now let's start that journey together!!! :)

Your Dad,
Blair