The Nursery That Waited
In 2019, Marcus and Delia Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, finished painting the nursery soft yellow on a Saturday afternoon. Their adoption caseworker had told...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 13:24-37.
In 2019, Marcus and Delia Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, finished painting the nursery soft yellow on a Saturday afternoon. Their adoption caseworker had told them it could be weeks or months — there was no way to know when the call would come. So they lived ready. The car seat stayed buckled in the back of their Honda. A go-bag sat by the front door with tiny socks, formula, and a blanket Delia's grandmother had crocheted.…
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