We're Waiting, They're Waiting

We are in the process of...waiting. Waiting on things we don't have the power to speed up. It is hard to wait. But, we're using our time as wisely as possible. We have Chinese to (attempt to) learn. Our first box of books about Chinese just came in.

But, this blog post is not about us. Not this time. It isn't even about Daniel and Matthew. It's about them:

Foster brothers to our Daniel and Matthew, these two boys are 13 and 12. The older one has external ear deformities and some hearing loss, though someone who recently visited the orphanage said he was perfectly able to keep up with the conversation. The other one (the 12 year old) has second degree cleft lip/palate with a nose deformity. Both are healthy, happy boys. The older is more quiet and reserved. The younger is described as funny.

Let me reiterate, they are 13 and 12, which means they will age out soon. At age fourteen they will be unadoptable and will be put to work in factories or put on the street...at fourteen. They will have no future and no family. Because of their facial deformities, they will be social outcasts. This is their reality. It isn't a bad dream, it isn't a "maybe", it is what the future has in store for them and this future is one year away for the first boy and two years away for the second. Don't be fooled by what sounds like a long time, it is a short, short time for an adoption to be completed.

They need a family. Desperately.

They need hope. Desperately.

They are running out of time.

Do not walk away from these pictures, look at those faces, look hard. They are real little boys. They are real little children who have never had a mother and a father. They are real boys who have never had a family all their own. And, what's more, they might never have a family. What we take for granted, they might never, ever have.

Let your heart break for them. Don't close it to those boys. Your heart needs to be broken. This is injustice. No child should live without a family. This is a tragedy and just because it happens to millions of children, doesn't make it any less wrong or any less painful for the children themselves.

Please consider these boys. I mean exactly that, consider adopting one or both of them. Consider whether your family could be their family. Consider this prayerfully and carefully. You can contact me for more information. If you do not feel called to adopt these boys, please, please pray to God for these boys. Pray they will come into a loving, Christian family and please pass the information about these boys on to anyone and everyone.