Details....
part one.
We did not arrive at the decision to adopt
easily, quickly, or
without much thought, soul-searching and
prayer.
We became aware of "Janie"
through Reece's Rainbow (RR),
an advocacy site for special needs orphans
around the world. http://reecesrainbow.org/.
It was close to Christmas and RR was trying
to help raise awareness for these special children. RR created a grant
fund on "Janie's" page to help cover some of the expenses of
adoption, which would hopefully help her adopting family more readily commit to
moving forward. We donated to "Janie's" fund, with the hope
that a family would come forward. And take her home. And give her
love. And make her their own daughter.
No one came forward.
A few months passed.
I walked to the mailbox one January afternoon
and there was a package.
(this is our Annabelle looking at the snow we got one January day)
A Christmas ornament.
A picture of "Janie" on the ornament.
This darling baby.
Still precious.
Still waiting.
Christmas was over,
but in my hand was a little reminder
that this sweet baby did not have a family.
Her second Christmas had come and gone...
without a mama.
Yet... what could I do?
“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and
doesn't do it, it is sin for them.” James 4:17
