Stolz Family Milos Adoption
The Starfish Story
Original Story by: Loren Eisley

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed
a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.
Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”
The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean.  
The surf is up and the tide is going out.  If I don’t throw them back, they’ll
die.”
“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach
and hundreds of starfish?  
You can’t make a difference!”
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish,
and threw it back into the surf.  Then, smiling at the man, he said…”
I made a difference for that one.”

Determined to make a difference for at least one more ‘starfish’, we are travelling
to adopt a little boy with Down syndrome.  Milos is a 10 year old boy living in an
orphanage in Eastern Europe. Until 1997 when MSNBC ran a three part series
about abuses in these institutions, he was in a mental institution there. Following
that report, he was transferred to an orphanage where he has lived since.  The link
below gives a snapshot of that report:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/21794657#21794657
What we know of Milos at this point is his name, age, birth town and a general
statement that he is “healthy, without heart problems”. Of course, we do not know
what tests they were able to run to make that statement. We do know he is
EXTREEMLY small: currently, he is 40 inches tall and just under 30 lbs…about the
size of a skinny 3-4 year old at age 10 years.


The surf is up and the tide is going out.
I WILL make difference for THIS one.”
Isaiah 43:5
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.