When Love Takes You In.....

If you've never heard the song by Steven Curtis Chapman, look it up on youtube! It's a wonderful song that makes me cry everytime I hear it. The Chapman family have a wonderful story and have adopted from China 3 times! I think of Elise everytime I listen to this song. I worry that she does cry herself to sleep and that no one is there to commort her! I have been dreaming about her an awful lot lately. Here are the words to the song........


I  know you've heard the stories
But they all sound too good to be true
You've heard about a place called home
But there doesn't seem to be one for you
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep
And drift off to a distant dream

Where love takes you in and everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in

And somewhere while you're sleeping
Someone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days until
They hold you close and say I love you
And like the rain that falls into the sea
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be
When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart

And this love will never let you go
There is nothing that could ever cause this love to lose its hold

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in it takes you in for good
When love takes you in

-Steven Curtis Chapman

Love does take you in forever! There is no going back. Elise was born in my heart just like my other 3 children. There is a "no return" policy! Thank goodness we all have that policy with our parents! LOL! I love her so much already. My heart aches for her!

On a side note.... when you show Emmie a picture of Elise and ask "Who is this?" She says "Elise" or "sissy". When you ask her "Where is Elise?" She says "Elise in China". Too Cute!! I can't wait to see the two of them together! I'm going to try to post a video of her doing it.

Also, TA (travel approval) could arrive as early as April 14th! The waiting is getting harder everyday!