First, let me post the TL;DR version right up top: Shirly and I have suspended all efforts to adopt.  We have closed our old site, mormonsadopting.com, and have deactivated our account on adoption.com.  I’m sure this is disappointing and even heartbreaking to our friends and family, who have held out hope and prayed for us and with us as we have sought the blessing of posterity.  We’re simply at a point of spiritual exhaustion with respect to this matter, for reasons that should be abundantly clear in the course of this post. [Read more…]