From a friend

On the heels of my Pottery Barn experience and the shit we are dealing with from Homeland Security (see below posts) I get this wonderful email from a friend. This friend I have known for a long time but she's a friend that I don't talk to that often. So when I got this from her I was really moved that she thought of me. It was as if she knew that J and I needed to read this right now.
I hope all of you in the process of adoption (like myself) or who have just brought their baby home (like Julie) or who have become adoptive moms long ago or know someone who is/has adopted - that you read this and get the same sense of emotion as I did. It's very powerful and in my case makes me know this little snag we are going through is all worth it in the long run.

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Hey Wendy, I read this and thought of you! Hope your quest is going well and you have a little one in your home and arms soon!
Hope you have a Healthy Christmas and happy New Year! I'll stop by the store soon.


AMAZING LOVE

Before I was an adoptive mom, I thought that if you didn't have a natural child you weren't really a mother
Before I was an adoptive mom I never thought that I could protect someone as fiercely as a grizzly bear
I never thought that I would become so protective of something that once belonged to someone else (if only for 9 months)
I never thought that I would bond with a child in such a natural way
I never thought that I wouldn't mind sticky hand prints on the wall, or
on the back of the arm of my shirt

Before I was an adoptive mom,
I never thought that my actions and lifestyle would be under such scrutiny
I never thought that I would be capable of so much love
I never thought that my heart could break at the thought of my child's pain,
whether physical or emotional

Before I was an adoptive mom, I thought all woman who gave up their child were selfish
I never thought of if as a gift of life to the child, or
A gift of life to me and my family

Before I was an adoptive mom,
I thought that child would always think about his biological family
I thought that I would always see the imprint of another on this child
I thought that I would always be just the "adoptive" person, never the "real" mother.

Now I am an adoptive mom, and I now I see how much I've changed.


~Ruth Rainone

Behind every adoptive mom is child waiting to be loved.

Webster says this about adoption; “to choose, to take legally into one’s family and raise as one’s own, to take as your own. To choose or accept.”

Adoption is the greatest Gift...we are ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
Rom 8:14-17
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(KJV)


Pass this on to just 1 friend. See how many of your friends have adopted or know someone who has.