I guess this is as good a place as any.

I have two friends whose lives stand in such stark contrast to each other that I can't get it out of my head.

One friend has been trying to have a baby for 8 years. She has adopted two kids (I think they were around 2 and 5 when she adopted them) and fosters kids. And nearly every single day she posts something relating to how she can't have a baby because of X Y and Z, and all the discouragement around it. A while ago she posted about how she might have to try getting on with one of the faith-based adoption companies (they're currently with a secular one) because they are "that desperate."

My other friend is Stephen's cousin, Catherine. She and her husband have decided to adopt before they try to have kids biologically, because they think it's an amazing picture of the Gospel. They started the journey a year ago, or maybe less than a year, and they have been trusting God 110% the whole entire way. They just got placed with a newborn baby yesterday.

I wish I knew what to say to my first friend. I wish she were friends with Catherine. I wish she could see Catherine's faith and learn something from it. I wish her heart were changed.

Anyway, it's depressing following my first friend's page, so I finally unfollowed it. I don't know what else to do. She seems to be really hardened against Christ.

-Stephanie

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