Adoption is truly a loving option

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A friend who adopted Loved this:

Not flesh of my flesh
nor bone of my bone
but heart in my heart,
you are my own.

In thanksgiving to those parents who extend their lives, homes and hearts for children in need of adoption. May they and their children be blessed.

Mary.
 
Adoption is the most important concept to esteem by humanity since it is by adoption that Christ invited us into His ‘family’ and by which we have the right to pray “Our Father who art in Heaven…”

The concept of adoption is grievously undermined by the practices of IVF, surrogacy and abortion. They relegate the idea of adoption to an inferior ‘last resort’ when it should be the first port of call.
 
Tale of Two Women…
Once there were two women
Who never knew each other.
One you do not remember,
The other you call Mother.
Two different lives
Shaped to make yours one.
One became your morning star,
The other became your sun.
The first gave you life,
And the second taught you to live it.
The first gave you a need for love
And the second was there to give it.
One gave you a nationality,
The other gave you a name.
One gave you a seed of talent,
The other gave you an aim.
One gave you emotions,
The other calmed your fears.
And she saw your first sweet smile,
Was there to dry your tears.
One gave you up-
It was all she could do.
The other prayed for a child
And God led her straight to you
Heredity or environment
Which are you the product of?
Neither , my darling-neither,
Just two different kinds of love.

This poem was sent to me from a wonderful woman who adopted a son. I just shared it with my daughter, in celebration of the arrival of her adopted son, my grandson. We love him so much. What a blessing our family has been given, thanks to the unselfish gift of life another woman gave to this amazing baby boy. We thank God daily for this precious child and his birth mother!
 
I am just starting out on the first steps of being assessed for suitability to adopt.

In the face of so many children who arrive ‘by accident’, are abused or neglected and are either not wanted or can’t be cared for by their natural parents, it is my view that the adoptive parent is no less than the image of an angel - for to actively choose to make space in your heart for a child, to make a deliberate choice to commit to and love and be relied upon, come what may, by that child for the rest of your natural life is every bit as sacramental and holy as marriage.

They say that there is no greater love than that shown by the man who lays down his life for another. Deciding to be an adoptive parent is very much this.
 
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