The Heart of an Orphan eBook Amy Eldridge
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"The Heart of an Orphan" is the remarkable true story of how one tiny and critically ill baby in a Chinese orphanage inspired a movement to bring hope and healing to thousands of orphaned and impoverished children. Written by Amy Eldridge, founder and CEO of Love Without Boundaries, this poignant chronicle of LWB's life-changing work, told through the stories of individual children, offers personal insight into the complex issues surrounding orphan care, abandonment, international aid, and adoption. Both thought-provoking and inspirational, "The Heart of an Orphan" reminds us all that while the needs of vulnerable children around the world may seem overwhelming, the human heart triumphs in believing that every life has value and every child deserves love.
The Heart of an Orphan eBook Amy Eldridge
I spent the 2004-5 school year living in China, which was only a few years after Amy Eldridge visited her daughter's orphanage and went on to found Love Without Boundaries. During that time, I was granted weekly access into an "unregistered" orphanage-- an experience similar to the one Eldridge describes in chapter seven. Which is to say, difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't seen this kind of poverty and hopelessness firsthand. It's something that, as both a citizen of a first-world country and a person of faith, I will spend the rest of my life grappling with. How? Why? What should be done?The Heart of an Orphan is a very straightforward, easy-to-read narrative that explains the complexities of life as an orphan in China, the many challenges associated with trying to provide assistance, and also the stories of the individual children who inhabit this world. It is by turns uplifting, hopeful, and heartbreaking. It is honest and real.
More importantly, The Heart of an Orphan is a beautiful, heart-wrenching, challenging answer to the questions I will ask myself for the rest of my life. How could God let this happen? What can I do to help? Have I done enough? In a moral sense, I would stand this book up next to The Brothers Karamazov and the Biblical book of Job. In this simple, straightforward narrative, Amy tackles some of the most difficult questions we will ever face with grace, humility, and fortitude. To distill the major point: the key question is not "How could this happen," but "What am I going to do about it?" The burden rests not with God or the world, but with us. What now?
Amy provides not only a moral framework, but does it in such a way as to be encouraging. I'm actually reading this book with my seven year old now, because Amy's perspective on suffering and compassion is exactly how I want my children to see the world. We're crying together, yes, but we're also learning how to push through that sorrow toward love.
I admit that I have allowed the overwhelming enormity of suffering in the world to make my heart hard. This book shook off that crusty outer layer and reminded me that we will always have the poor with us - that is the nature of life. And though we may not be able to solve all of the world's problems, we can always, ALWAYS help just one child.
Every. Child. Counts.
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The Heart of an Orphan eBook Amy Eldridge Reviews
I absolutely loved this book. However, I can’t say that I couldn’t put it down because I couldn’t read more than a couple of chapters without needing a break. Amy’s book is basically a collection of stories about children she has known through her work with Love Without Boundaries. It’s the heartrending emotional rollercoaster that you would expect.
Each chapter also tells some part of Amy’s story of how Love Without Boundaries grew, but also her personal growth. I really appreciated her nuanced discussion of sensitive topics. She discusses how her view of parents who abandon their children changed as she worked to provide surgeries for children still in their birth families. How she came to recognize the adoptive parent preference for girls as she saw, over time, how the orphanages were filling up with boys but families did not step forward as quickly to adopt them. She even acknowledges the challenges of older child adoption while discussing the plight of children who reach the age where they are no longer eligible for adoption.
I feel a little odd in writing such a short review for a book I want to rave about. It’s simply that it’s hard to describe it in the way it deserves. I think that Eldridge’s memoir, along with Jenny Bowan’s (of Onesky/Half the Sky) Wish You Happy Forever, should be required reading for those in the China adoption program. They are both far more relevant for families in the current process than the frequently recommended Silent Tears.
As a mother of twins adopted from China, (and I discovered while reading this book they are in it) I can honestly say this book is true, real, raw and honest. These stories are not exaggerated, these children have endured so much. They deserve to have their stories told and Amy Eldridge does an amazing job of it. The book is well written, gripping, emotional and touching. You will zip through it and afterword feel motivated and inspired. Don't be afraid of sadness, and don't bury your head in the sand. True happiness is found when we are loving others. So read it, and then act on your newly acquired knowledge. Amy has paved the way for us to be a part of something amazing and bigger than ourselves. Highly recommend.
~MistyR
This book certainly lives up to its title, taking readers on a journey into the heart of orphans in China and beyond. Author Amy Eldridge beautifully and candidly shares her journey of starting out as an adoptive mom to become the founder of an international organization working to help provide orphans with medical care, education, foster homes, and adoption services. She vividly retells the stories of many of the children she's met along the way, introducing readers to the individual children behind the staggering and often overwhelming statistics of child abandonment.
Each chapter tells real children's stories, struggles, heartbreak, smiles, resilient hope, sometimes tragic endings, and the many happy endings. It is a captivating read, one that grabs hold of your heartstrings straightaway, making it hard to put it down. Though the stories are often replete with tragedy, Eldridge writes from her heart, filling each page with a contagious hope that leaves the reader brimming, not with tears, but with overwhelming compassion and unswerving belief that "every life counts" and that we can, indeed, make a difference in the lives of orphans. It's love on every page.
This book touched my heart deeply with the stories of these beautiful children. By getting to know the heart of an orphan, my heart was transformed by the power of a love that transcends boundaries. I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to grow in love and care for not just orphans, but all people everywhere.
I spent the 2004-5 school year living in China, which was only a few years after Amy Eldridge visited her daughter's orphanage and went on to found Love Without Boundaries. During that time, I was granted weekly access into an "unregistered" orphanage-- an experience similar to the one Eldridge describes in chapter seven. Which is to say, difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't seen this kind of poverty and hopelessness firsthand. It's something that, as both a citizen of a first-world country and a person of faith, I will spend the rest of my life grappling with. How? Why? What should be done?
The Heart of an Orphan is a very straightforward, easy-to-read narrative that explains the complexities of life as an orphan in China, the many challenges associated with trying to provide assistance, and also the stories of the individual children who inhabit this world. It is by turns uplifting, hopeful, and heartbreaking. It is honest and real.
More importantly, The Heart of an Orphan is a beautiful, heart-wrenching, challenging answer to the questions I will ask myself for the rest of my life. How could God let this happen? What can I do to help? Have I done enough? In a moral sense, I would stand this book up next to The Brothers Karamazov and the Biblical book of Job. In this simple, straightforward narrative, Amy tackles some of the most difficult questions we will ever face with grace, humility, and fortitude. To distill the major point the key question is not "How could this happen," but "What am I going to do about it?" The burden rests not with God or the world, but with us. What now?
Amy provides not only a moral framework, but does it in such a way as to be encouraging. I'm actually reading this book with my seven year old now, because Amy's perspective on suffering and compassion is exactly how I want my children to see the world. We're crying together, yes, but we're also learning how to push through that sorrow toward love.
I admit that I have allowed the overwhelming enormity of suffering in the world to make my heart hard. This book shook off that crusty outer layer and reminded me that we will always have the poor with us - that is the nature of life. And though we may not be able to solve all of the world's problems, we can always, ALWAYS help just one child.
Every. Child. Counts.
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