Emphasis Preaching Journal

Anne wanted children. She had never been married, but she had enough space in her heart and her home. She traveled to the tiny Eastern European nation of Moldova, and there she found Irina. Ecstatic, Anne adopted Irina and brought her back to her home in the US. But there was something wrong. Although Irina was nearly two years old, she did not smile. She could barely even sit up. Irina had literally spent the first two years of her life in a crib, the product of an over-full, understaffed, poverty-stricken orphanage.