Happy Valentine's Day!
If we step back to look, our house is filled with love. Kisses, hugs, hand-holding, notes, songs, talking, listening-amid the hurry of daily life, the spaces are filled with these.
If what Saint-Exupery (he wrote 'The Little Prince') says is true, what direction are we looking?
At a world...
With no wars-between countries, friends, neighbors, family.
Where we cherish our resources creatively.
Overflowing with the labors of the arts, in books, paintings, sculptures, plays, music, and so on.
Where the past is lovingly excavacted, studied, and learned from.
That embraces all of its children, homes and hearts open.
On that note-Mrs. S. just called, the mother of an friend from Dominican. She was checking on the adoption of J. I'm so very touched that she - and countless others - are thinking of him and us.
In a future post I'll give a little background on the whole family, but for now, I want to just briefly touch on J. He's our foster child right now, but we're hoping to adopt him soon. We got him straight from the hospital in October-all 4 lbs. 11 oz. of him. He was 10 weeks early, born at a tad over 3 lbs. With strawberry blond wavy curls and blue, blue eyes, and his non-stop stream of chatter, he's a charmer. He loves to kiss. He has a bit of a temper, for example, when he can't make his little arms do what he wants. He laughs out loud when we sing to him.
We'd hoped he'd be ours by now, but 'tis not so. We await paperwork filings and court decrees, and wonder if God hears our prayers.
We'll comfort ourselves, this Valentine's Day and on, with the love in the house, and the love from the world that pours itself in. But still we'll hope....
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