I recently read about a Catholic couple here in Austin, David and Mary, who had been married for 3 years but had been unable to conceive children.

Like many couples in such a situation, they looked into adoption, but instead of going to China or Russia or Guatemala to find the children that God wanted them to adopt, they stayed in Texas and researched foster-care adoptions.  Usually these children are either 1) older, or 2) have some disability, or 3) have to be adopted with their siblings.

Well, there were 5 little girls–sisters–ages 4 - 9, who the state was going to split up because no one would adopt all 5 of them.  No one, that is, until this amazing couple stepped forward and opened up their home to all 5 of the girls!

These once-poor but now very rich little girls had been taken from their birth parents for neglect, gone to a shelter for some time, then to foster-care where they were split up for a while, reunited in foster-care again, but now have found their home.  One of them asked their new mother, Mary, “where will we be sent off to next?”, and Mary told her, “Nowhere.  This is your forever home”.

Let’s hear it for heroic generosity and love.