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For anyone who has ever wondered about the motivation behind our desire to adopt, I believe this video says it all......I Like Adoption

A Christmas nightmare in India

"Police and child advocates broke padlocks and busted down doors in a surprise raid of a sweatshop in India, only to find a group of children imprisoned who had been forced to make Christmas decorations.

The children, as young as 8 years old, were kept in rooms approximately six feet by six feet and had been forced to work up to 19-hour days making the decorations, which advocates believe may have been intended to be sold on the cheap in the United States."

This is from an ABC News headline today.  Every time I hear stories like this, my heart breaks.  All that I can think of is that this may be my son or daughter, literally.   

We have finished everything in the adoption process that is in our control.   Now, we are waiting on India to respond.  I am trying to wait patiently.  I am trying to enjoy the good life with my family I do have while I wait.  I don't want to miss out on right now because I am so consumed with getting my children home.  But there is definitely an urgency that propels my heart and it takes discipline for me to focus on the now.  Stories like this make it nearly impossible.

Would you take a minute today and pray with me for the children of India?  Two of them will be mine someday, but all of them hold a place in my heart.