The following week, John asked to see the photos of the children on the website. As we went through the photos, he saw Nathaniel's photo, and he exclaimed, "Him! I want him to be my brother!" That was enough to initially cause me to take notice, but I brushed it off as a coincidence believing that I must have influ-enced John in some way. However, Ellen asked to see the children's photos the next day, and her experience could not be rationalized nor denied.

When she saw Nathaniel's photo, she exclaimed, "That is my brother right there, and I am going to pray for Heavenly Father to bring him home to our family!" That is precisely what she did. She prayed right at that moment, and would not be deterred when I suggested she simply pray that he find a forever family rather than to come to our family. "No!" she said, "He is my brother and Heavenly Fa-ther will bring him home to our family."

My brain was swimming, my heart was racing, and my lungs remained still as I held my breath trying to figure out how I would explain this to my husband. While he was open to adopting in the future, he was not open to adopting at that moment because of our financial situation, and I agreed with him. I could not see how we would ever find the money to finance an adoption. I knew we could raise a fourth children and support a fourth child, but the fees associated with adoption and travel expenses were far from our reach.

Eventually my husband prayed for inspiration, and though it did not come in the way he wanted it, he agreed to move ahead in the adoption process as far as we could go. When we met with an insurmountable obstacle, we would accept it and stop. We both knelt in prayer and asked for money to rain from the sky be-cause we couldn't imagine it coming any other way. Money didn't literally fall from the sky, but it did arrive when necessary. Often in nearly the amount we needed at the time. Some how we even managed to finance one short trip for me to visit Nathaniel in Haiti.

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