The journey is over, so it only made sense that I stop updating this blog.
However, I felt compelled to share something so important, it was worth one more update.
As I write this, I'm yelling at Elisha to put back the leftovers she just grabbed out of the fridge as a snack. She's Miss Independent, and constantly in trouble for trying to do more than she is allowed. She's awesome.
She's going to be just fine. Life is great.
But for others? They don't get the same chance at life.
Less than a year after Elisha came home, Russia closed its doors to American adoptions as part of our two countries never-ending love/hate political relationship with one another. There is plenty of evidence to suggest this is the beginning of their doors shutting completely on foreign adoptions. And, while plenty might say, "Let them take care of their own children, and let us do the same here," the fact of the matter is...
we're all God's children. When we turn our backs on the children on the other side of the world, we might as well turn our back on the missing child's face on the news. On the disabled child being bullied at the playground. On the student who comes to school showing signs of abuse.
When we turn our backs on one, we might as well turn away from them all.
The head of a country has asked us to forget. I pray we never do.
For Kolya's sake.
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| A few years ago |
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| Now locked in an institution. |
For Kyle's sake.
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| Living in an orphanage. |
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| Now locked in an institution. |
For Ksenia's sake.
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| Living in an orphanage |
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| Now locked in an institution |
For Nathan's sake.
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| Living in an orphanage |
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| Now locked in an institution |
Elisha faced this very same fate. Exactly six months ago, without being adopted, she would have had the same fate- a life sentence in an institution. Had God not brought us together, her before and after would look much different than it does today.
Because this:
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| Elisha in an orphanage- age 2 |
has the potential to become
this:
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| Elisha's first day of Kindergarten- August 2013 |
but only if we refuse to look away.
