An Announcement, Part 3

Alright, back to the story...

Wednesday morning, he was gone from the shared list. We didn't know if that meant he had been matched with a family or he had been pulled to an agency specific list for a few months or something different.

A few hours later I got an email from Rainbow Kids, an adoption website that advocates for waiting children. Basically you fill out a waiting parent profile, and then they email you when agencies have children that you might be interested in.

The email was advocating for a little guy they called Adam. I clicked on the link to learn more.

And it was Su Yin Tao. Being advocated for by the same agency who emailed me the night before. And I realized that if they were advocating for him, there was a very good chance that they were the ones who locked him in for 72 hours, but they didn't have a family for him yet. (The rules aren't supposed to work like that, but sometimes it happens.)

And so I started praying. I prayed that if there was another family out there for him, that God would connect them together. I prayed that if he was ours that God would somehow make a way for that to happen, even though there was also a very good chance that he had been either been placed on that agency's list or he was matched. And I basically just asked if he was ours.

By Sunday night, Tim and I felt a peace about the whole thing. And I felt like somehow, God was going to work it out to make Su Yin Tao my son. Diapers and all.

I got up bright and early and emailed our agency. I said, if he is back on the shared list this morning, we want you to lock his file for us. And I sat and waited with my laptop on and my phone in my hand. I knew that if my email popped up first, she hadn't found him. But if the phone rang, he would be ours...