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God winks

Sometimes the guy in line behind you at Sam's starts speaking in Creole... and hearing the native language of your son, after a really hard week, brings you to tears and he stops and speaks words of blessing over you and your family. In the words of my friend Nonie, a "God-wink." # fortressofHope   # bethegood   # waitingforonemore   # Bishopfamilyadopts

Last night..

Last night, Chris and I were on a conference call with other families adopting from Haiti and our new adoption agency. There were some good things – like getting to hear the heart ache and laments of families just like ours – who have lost all the progress they have made. It reminded us that we are not alone. We got to hear that Haiti is adopting a child a day – which is much faster than they have in the past.We were reaffirmed that the new adoption agency is the right one for us, and that working with them will mean our son comes home – eventually. But there were a lot of hard things, a lot of heartbreaking thing on the conference call last night. One of them is that we might have to almost completely start everything over, paperwork included. That even if we got matched today – there would be no way for us to bring our son home. That this journey is going to take far longer than we had ever imagined we started. So after a restless night last night, I got to talk to my Mama- Who...