 An
excerpt from AdoptingOnline.com...
"A
few years ago I was caring for a baby who was going
to be adopted. I had him in my arms and was standing
outside my church after services when Grace, a
woman I knew, came up to me. She was spry and cheerful
at the age of 82 and she looked at the child with
shining eyes.
'Babies
are so wonderful,' she said. She was quiet for
a time. 'I wish I had known you when I was younger.
I would have asked you to find a baby for me to
adopt.' It turned out she and her husband were
unable to have children of their own.
Grace
was a loving person who was always around children,
so I had assumed she was a mother. But on that
Sunday morning, I learned she had lived her whole
life
without the joy of sharing her love with a son
or daughter.
'We
didn't know what to do or where to begin,' she
said. 'So we never did have a baby.' If only someone
long ago had helped her get started on the road
to adoption, she would have had her little one.
If,
like Grace, you are unable to have a biological
child or have always wanted to adopt and with all
your heart you want to love, nurture and bring
up a child, then you should set out to find yours.
Fifty-five years ago there was a child out there
who was meant for Grace and today there is a child
waiting, or yet to be born, who is meant for you." |
