Paula's mind raced: Adoption is not happening I'm too old. I'm comfortable-an empty nester I'm busy teaching. A nine-year-old? Why me? Desiring to do God's will, Paula searched in John Piper's "A Hunger for God" and wept when she read Isaiah 58:6-8 on giving shelter and food to the needy. Five weeks later, God led her to mother not just one, but two Cambodian orphans.