Inspirational story... maybe

I just found this section. I was bored and decided to see what the Christians over in the "faith-based adoption" section were saying. Then, I discovered this. So, I don't know if anyone is out there, but if you're reading something titled "faith-based" maybe you would be interested in my little story. We adopted our first child. It was miraculous, wonderful, magical. Then, we wanted to adopt a second child, but we ran into a very mean, racist case worker. There are no private adoptions or agencies here, only orphanage adoption. So, we had no options. She was angry that we were open to adopting children of a race she hates. So, she told us she was going to put our case on hold for three years arbitrarily. We were devastated. I did a lot of rituals, meditation, rune work, Tarot and so forth about this, trying to find help or at least inner peace. My mother has been introducing me to i-Ching lately but I did not feel close to it yet. But a bit over a year ago, I was feeling so low and afraid that I did an i-Ching reading. I got a result that is called "Not Yet Crossing". It is one of the most symmetrical of the "hexagrams" in the i-Ching. It basically counselled me that it will happen but not yet. A month later, a strange opportunity came up. The same case worker who was so angry at us and so racist suggested we be matched with a white child (which she approved of) where there was serious issues with alcohol and drug exposure and hepatitis C. We had a very bad feeling about the match and were very afraid that we couldn't financially deal with hepatitis C. I was afraid that she would consider this our "one and only chance" and write us off entirely. I did the i-Ching again and got exactly the same result "Not Yet Crossing". Not only was it the same result, the steps leading up to it were exactly the same to (the lines were all with the same order of numbers, if anyone knows what I'm talking about). The chances of getting two exactly the same readings like that are like millions or billions to one. These were the only two readings I had done in that month. It was astounding. We ended up not going with the match. After that I decided that I wanted to integrate ancestors into my spiritual practice - i-Ching is from an ancestor-based religion. I began doing nearly daily rituals calling on the elements and our ancestors and our children's ancestors to help. I did another i-Ching reading later and it showed "Oppression", stating that the situation was clearly beyond our control and a matter of oppression. It counselled more meditation and prayer and getting out of the situation as quickly as possible. Three months later, a temporary loophole in the system allowed another social worker to match us to a waiting child, who had been in an orphanage far too long and only because he was the "wrong" race and no family in his region of the country could be found. Now, we have our two wonderful children and a whole bushel of ancestors to thank. Blessed be. Arianna