Why is it so hard?

I get asked quite often "why is it so hard to adopt an orphan?" The child is there, wherever, in an orphanage without a family, and here is a family willing to adopt a child who needs a home. What's the hold up? Technically, I can tell you all the reasons, rules, and reality of it, and broadly, I can tell you that families need to be prepared and children have to be protected from all the potential evil out there. But spirtually, why? Proverbs 21 tells us that God can do anything--moving kings like water in His hands. He could make these adoptions happen with the lifting of His pinky finger. So why not? I think it has to do with us. Something in us is refined, groomed, pruned, grown better, with each hold up, bump, and obstacle in our way. In the end, we know that God is the one who created the family, and He did so in His time. It is hard. Very hard. But so worth it when that child comes home, and you look back and declare God's hand and glory through it all. Frankly, I don't know how people do this without God!