Almost Time

This month marks two years since we made the decision to adopt from China and began working on the process. I've basically seen 3 Mother's Days come and go thinking with each one, "next year we'll have our daughter". Like many adoptive parents stuck in the inevitable "wait period" of adoption, one begins to think, "will this ever really happen?" as days turn to months, seasons pass, months begin to turn to years, and the waiting process slows for reasons unclear to you and reasons well beyond your control.

This past winter seemed like an eternity for me, many cold dreary days, with little hint that spring would be coming. But spring did arrive, none too late, fulfilling all the promises that it brings.

On the other side of the world, across a vast ocean, a daughter waits for us. This wait will pass, like the seasons; and, in time, the sun will shine; she will be home.


Just across the sea on this world so round
the sun's shining hot right now.
And even though the winter still surrounds this town
I can still feel that sun somehow.

Chorus
When I know that my sun will shine just as sure as this world can spin,I can hold on fine, cause it almost time, for that sun to come 'round again.

So I'll walk beside the sea on this frozen ground
where there once was a warm weather crowd.
Even though that summer's been a long time gone,
I can still feel that sun somehow.

Chorus
When your love grows cold and your heart grows dark
and the blame seems to fall on you.
Well look how seasons must change and don't think it so strange
that your love goes in circles too.

And just know that your sun will shine just as sure as this world can spin,
and I know you'll find, that it's almost time, for that love to come 'round again.
We can hold on fine, cause it almost time, for that love to come 'round again.

Almost Time, David Wilcox

photo: Nick Langor