Someone to Watch Over

Cathy`s Family #429

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me

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Over much of the course of our adoption odyssey, I have been the stoic one, taking setbacks with stride, believing that our children will come to us when God intends, and not a day sooner or later.

Some days, however, my very soul weeps to be someone's father.

Knowing that there are one or two children on the other side of the planet who want to be my kids doesn't really help, to tell the truth. I don't know them.

I use photos from Cathy Harris' website to try to imagine what they'll look like, what they'll be like. Like these twin nine-year olds? Like these Roma girls? Or one of these? (Okay, who guessed that I would instantly gravitate to the one on the teal in the front?) Like these folks, will our kids be older than we anticipate?

The sad eyes of older teens really kill me - if they aren't adopted out, they face the possibility of life on the streets, and all that entails - drugs, prostitution, death. On this I cannot dwell. I cannot. I cannot.

What about another photo of the girl in the teal? How is it possible such a sprite hasn't been spirited away to live in Amerika?

Seeing the ones who have come home is good. It reminds me this isn't a dead-end road, I think.

It's also interesting to see the changes that occur once children leave the orphanage and come home. Girls are usually given very short, easily-maintained haircuts in the orphanages.

Don't think for a minute that I'm averse to adopting a boy, either...

Still...

This girl bears a striking resemblance to Sherry C...I can even imagine this being a photo of good Mrs. Chidwick from sometime in the mid-seventies, what with the girl's hairstyle...

Thanks for letting me ramble...seeing kids who have come home, however convoluted their path was, reminds me what we're in this for. Yup.

"Dear friend, he is not slow in keeping his promises, as some understand slowness to be..." II Peter 3:9