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Haiti Bound

Haiti Bound      Two weeks from now I will be in a hotel room, preparing to fly back to the United States with an entirely new perspective on Haiti and our adoption.  I will have experienced Haitian culture up close and personally, willly have held orphans in my arms who may or may not ever have a family adopt them, and I will have worshiped with a local church right in the center of orphan care.  I will meet women who dedicate their lives to scores of children not their own, and I will be broken.      No, this trip doesn't actually have anything to do with our family's adoption.  Our paperwork is still sitting on a desk waiting to be submitted, where it will likely stay for another eight months.  There is nothing I can do about this but pray, which I do, but in the meantime, my heart says I must do more!      If there is one thing I have already learned from our adoption journey, it is that adoption is not "the" answer for Haiti.   In fact, it is only one of ma