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God gave my wife and me a Christmas miracle not once, but twice

Updated: December 24, 2022 at 12:57 pm EST  See Comments

Sat Dec 24, 2022 – 11:34 am ESTTue Dec 20, 2022 – 11:56 am EST

Note: This was originally published in 2019, and has been updated. 

(LifeSiteNews) – Twenty nine Christmases ago – our ninth together as man and wife – my wife Valerie and I experienced an unexpected miracle. 

After discovering we were infertile early in our marriage, we had employed the help of doctors to the extent our consciences would allow, and when that proved unfruitful we quickly and happily went to work with an adoption agency. A few years and thousands of dollars later, amid soul-crushing disappointment, we reluctantly gave up our hope of ever having children.   

We resigned ourselves to childlessness and tried to find comfort in the possibility of a lifetime of increased disposable income, of travel and other little luxuries. Over the next few years we put the thought of raising a family out of our minds. Or at least, we tried to.        

Then something extraordinary happened.   

Four days before Christmas, shortly after I had arrived home from work, the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a neighbor who explained that her sister was a foster

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