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One Year

It has been a year since we started our 2nd adoption journey.  Our home study has been finished for over a year & we are closing in on the one year mark of being in the search process and we are still no closer than we were a year ago. We have had only a handful of leads that have went no where. We have only been looked at by birthparents through our agency maybe 4 times. This just seems really odd to me since I have known others who were looked at around 50 times in their first year.  While I know God is sovereign and he works in his own timing, it still has me wondering why so little in so long. Living in Ohio has its pros & cons about adoption. One great thing is that there is only a 3 day revocation period, while a con is that the agencies cannot advertise and the only way they get birth mothers is through word of mouth. Our agency is unable to reach out to birth mothers, they have to wait until the birth mothers contact them. This is something that is hard to wa...