I take one step out of the stairway and onto the living room floor and “Please play with me?” The boy shaped puzzle is forcing a pleasant smile, his desperate sales pitch to everyone he meets in the world – the cashier, children at the park, the FedEx man, dad – his lovable un-leavable best.
“Please… 
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Please Play With Me?
The Return Of Mimi
It’s been five months since we last saw Mimi. When Sambhaji’s chair was added to the dinner table she just stopped showing up. For a couple years she’d been arriving just after supper, with her props and rubber-faced expressions and slow southern drawl.
“Shaaaawwwwwn,” she once said,” how’ve you been, sweety? Tell Mimi about it?”
As I…
Ipen Do It
“Please monkey bars,” he’s said every day for almost four months.
He climbs the ladder in his Spiderman boots, stands on the platform – “Ipent do it.”
“You can do it, Sambhaji. You’re very strong. You’re Spiderman!”
He grabs the first yellow ring and considers swinging out alone. “Please help, Daddy.”
And I do. Every day I walk…
Sambhaji To Love
“My song, Dad,” he says.
I scroll through the iPod, press play. The voice of Freddie Mercury fills the van and the four-year old’s smile fills his face. The other three sing along…Can anybody find meeeee Sambhaji to love?
There are more than 44 million orphans in India alone. Separated from family by death or poverty. 44…
How’s The Adoption Going?
It’s become the most frequently asked question on the road, at church, on-line. Surpassing “How did you and Becky meet?” and “Is that your real hair color?” and “What’s Ann Voskamp like in real life?”
“How is the adoption going?” everyone asks.
And my mind gets jammed with too-long answers. And I filter out what our agency…
Showing Love
After I fly him to his bed like Spiderman and wrap him in a blanket like a caterpillar cocooned, I kiss his cheek and he laughs. My beard tickles.
“Again kiss,” he says. And again I kiss.
“I love you. Goodnight.”
Before I make it out the bedroom door he sits up.
“What is love you?”
My head is a…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
