So Close

Lately, I have been really thinking and praying about adoption. James and I struggle with the fact that we are quite comfortable with one child, yet feel called to adopt. I spend hours at night looking at adoption websites, reading family stories, and trying to discern if this is God's will for our family.

Two countries have stood out in my adoption research- Ethiopia (a country that caught my attention as a young child) and the Philippines, where child sex slavery is rampant. However, another tiny country not so far from home has been tugging at my heart- Haiti. It is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with most of the population living on $1 per day. Many children are orphaned and abandoned, and the rates of child mortality are quite high.

So tonight I was lead to more information about Haiti. I did not realize that child slavery was so common in Haiti. Many children, even children as young as 3 years old, are sent to the city to become domestic slaves. They are treated horribly and most often abused. Here is just one article I found highlighting the problems in Haiti:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6451267.stm

Let's pray for the children of Haiti together. May they grow to know the love of their Creator- who went to the cross and took all of the sin that has been done to them on his shoulders, who felt their pain, who spilled tears for them.