(I am not endorsing the organization or the people shown so much as the general message.)**
My life will never be the same because of this... In fact, my life has been changed for the better because of it... I have experienced a multitude of emotions - happiness, sadness, joy, pain, excitement, sorrow, and many, many others - because of this blessing:
Adoption
There have never been words to fully describe my feelings when I speak of adoption and my daughters and their birthparents. This month is National Adoption Month, and I want to share with you my gratitude to those who made the arrival of our daughters possible, their birthparents. They are the ones who found courage to make this choice of love. We are not talking a simple love of the brotherly kind, but an intense love that directs you do to what might be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life, or will ever do in your life because you know it's right and best. They had a love that was willing to listen to the whisperings of the spirit and follow its promptings even though they knew that they would experience pain. In this act, they followed our Savior's example, he willingly accepted the pain and sorrow of all people that the way might be opened for us to progress. Our birthparents sacrificed much because they wanted to give their daughters more, not only in this life, but eternally.
The most memorable experiences of our both of our girls' adoptions have taken place at their placements. Both of our daughters were placed into our arms by their birthparents, and both times the spirit in the room was overwhelming. There is a bitter-sweet feeling in the room during placement, as mother and mother and father and father look to each other and to these sweet little ones with love and hope for the future. These birthparents look to us with trust that we will do our best to raise their girls in righteousness. I often ask myself, as I love, teach, and guide our girls, am I being the mother that their birthfamilies hoped me to be? I will admit that I am not perfect, but I take this great responsibility very seriously because I love their birthparents dearly. I hope to one day stand before them, mostly likely with tears in my eyes, and thank them for the blessed opportunity to be a mother to their little girl.
Why do I share this with you? I hope that for you who have been touched by adoption in some way will express gratitude for that blessing - that includes all of you since you are my friends. I also hope for those of you who may be considering adoption, or may consider adoption in the future, I want you to know that you are about to embark on one amazing journey, and the highs and lows are all worth it because the blessing at the end is absolutely incredible. To you, I say do not fear the unknowns of adoption because I can testify that it is all in the Lord's hands. He is watching over all involved. 
My life has been blessed forever.
**I did try to check the validity of all the people cited as being adopted in the video, and to the best of my research all but two are definitely adopted by one or both parents. The remaining two are questions because I founds sources saying it was true and sources saying it was false. The two in question are JRR Tolkien and Tim McGraw.
3 comments:
Sharon, you have a blog! This is a beautiful post. I'm glad that your life has been so blessed by love.
Some days I need to be reminded of my blessings, and this was one of them. Thank you! I was actually speaking to a friend last night about how lucky we are to have our Rex, and how amazing his parents were to make a hard choice for themselves, but a (hopefully) good one for their little boy. It's been a life-changing experience for us, with many ups and downs, but my hope is that we will be better people for it, and Rex and his birth parents will be blessed beyond measure for their sacrifices.
Sharon - this was absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing the video and your experiences with your girls' adoption. I have nothing but the utmost admiration and respect for the brave and selfless birthparents that place their children with families such as yours. Having had to go through infertility treatment to get pregnant with Thomas, we are a little unsure about what the future may bring for us, children-wise. Adoption is definitely something that we are considering. Thank you again! It brought tears to my eyes.
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