Years have gone by since the death of Noah his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband Jackson try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.<br><br>Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony’s mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available -- the daughter Jackson always wanted.<br><br>With two children on their hands, life is complicated -- wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia ... and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.

Go Tell It on the Mountains

“But if you’ve got to go, then I want you to promise me something,” I said after a long pause. “I want you to promise that you won’t forget us. I know, I know, you’ll be up there polishing Jesus’s halo or sitting on a cloud or maybe he’ll put you in charge of the fairy dust or something, but I want you to promise me that you’re not going to forget about us when you get up there. Because we’re not going to forget about you, Little T. Not for a minute. And don’t you ever think we will.”


Beep…beep…beep…95: My Name Is Father James


I rested my head against the railing of the bed for what seemed only a moment or two but must have been longer, because suddenly I was aware of someone prodding my shoulder.


“My name is Father James,” the man said. “I don’t mean to intrude.”


Chapter 105