Time Is A Face On The Water~

I wonder if any of you understand that phrase? I read it for the first time in a Stephen King novel (from his Dark Tower Series) and it resonated then as it does now-

When I think about time, I often wonder where it went. Other days I wonder how it could have passed so slowly- 21 years seemed like 210 years. Thinking about my daughter and wondering where she was, how she was, or the worst thought, was she alive?

Think about that for a while, let that thought percolate through your brain and really think about it. Can you imagine having to wonder if you child was alive and well? It's excruciating, and wounds in way's I can't begin to explain.

I look around me and see people like John Wyatt, who is embroiled in a case in Utah with Larry "The Dick" Jenkins leading the charge to keep his child from him. I wonder how that man can sleep at night. Tanya O'Dea asked him that very question on Thursday-he couldn't even look her in the eye, his lip quivered and he cut her off. Hoping to cut off the voice of his conscience perhaps? To still the small part of himself that recoils in horror from what he is doing to men like John Wyatt and Cody O'Dea? I see comments on news stories that spew the same BS the NCFA spews, the same BS agencies spew, the same BS so many adopters spew. Where in any of this are the mother and father actually accorded the full protection of law and the justice system? Why is it that a child born in Virginia, is subject to Utah Law, when her father did everything he could to see her, and claim her, and assert his parental rights? Why is it ok for adopters to take that child to another state and defy the courts in Virginia? Why is it ok for the courts in Utah to defy the order of a Virginia court? Simply because the couple brought Emma to Utah? Because Jenkins and his ilk say so? Because they are "the real parents" but are really only the babysitters, who have kept Emma from her father for months. When they should have returned her the very minute, THE VERY MINUTE they knew her father wanted to raise her. Now they are going to use the tired old arguement that they are her "only family" in order to keep a child who is not their own?

Then I think of that phrase again-and wonder if Emma will understand it, will she know that her daddy fought for her if he loses this battle? Will Cody's child know he fought as well? Will the children who's families fought for them in the end know how hard they tried, and end up as so many do, resenting, or outright hating their adoptive family for lying and hiding the truth? Will they understand that their families did all that they could to bring them home? Will they know and understand? I hope they will, I believe they will. And in the end, I hope the people responsible for these atrocities pay for them. In the words of my daughter "May They Get Exactly What They Deserve." Think about that for awhile, yeah pretty scary isn't it?