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

“Don’t give me the ‘God is in charge’ thing, not when so many babies are starving to death in shit holes all over the globe, not when there’s so much evil and so many horrible things happening and so many people dying, so many kids who need homes, so much general bullcrap and fuckery from one end of this planet to the other. If God’s in charge, why doesn’t he do something?”


“From where I’m sitting, he’s doing a crap job—and that’s being polite.”


“From where you’re sitting, perhaps. I’m sure you’ve heard the story about the man who complained to God about these things. ‘God, why aren’t you doing something?’ the man asked. And God answered and said, rather simply, ‘Why aren’t you?’ God already did the work, you see. He set up his church. He showed the way forward. He laid it all out pretty clearly. And the thing is, God doesn’t have hands. Or feet. God is a spirit. Without us, God can do nothing. Ever think of that?”


Chapter 106