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