I am aware that the title for this post makes me sound like a crazy, infertile, insane, wanna be mom but I can’t help it.
I am in fact thinking of our children.
My heart breaks this Christmas Eve night.
My husband and I spent the day looking at websites with sweet faces of orphaned children.
Us, warm in our cozy little apartment with our 7 foot tall Christmas tree, simply waiting with open arms to welcome our child home.
The nostalgia that my son or daughter is not home, here with us, hits me. I’m hoping he or she feels loved in their foster home and simply praying that God provides their every single need.
The mystery behind this whole adoption process on who will be our children, their age, their sex, their personalities, makes this all the more harder to hold the excitement and the anticipation.
Every time I pass through the kids section at a store, I can’t help but wonder what their room will be decorated as- will he like dinosaurs? will she like owls? I wonder if he’ll like this toy? My guest bedroom feels like an empty canvas and all we need is our children to be the artistes.
All I think of lately is my children- the one’s that will call me mom, the ones I’ll care for and love, and the very same ones that are thought of so dearly before I get to meet them.
It’s such a love I simply can’t describe but one that reminds me so clearly of the love Abba Father has for us.
So this Christmas, in the very same spirit of the birth of our Savior be reminded of the very same reason we are saved- through adoption.
May you be blessed and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
HEY BETTY MERRY CHRISTMAS! I AM SURE GLAD GOD OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN THOUGHT SO MUCH OF US THAT HE ADOPTED! US! WOW ARENT U! I JUST HEARD A SERMON AND IT SEEMS TRUE I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY B4 BUT JOSEPH HAD TO ADOPT JESUS CAUSE HE WAS BORN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MARY I LOVE IT!!!SO UR LITTLE BOY OR GIRL ARE GONNA BE SOOO SOOO BLESSED TO HAVE TWO WONDERFUL PEOPLE AH THEIR PARENTS WOW I CANT WAIT TILL U ADOPT THEM!!ha ha I SAID THEM!!!! SEE YA BETTTY MERRY CHRISTMAS
@Somerskys, you are very sweet! Love that every comment I read from you is encouraging and they pull just the right heart strings. How often we forget that we were adopted into His family and sometimes forget how important adopting is in our faith! I can not wait to see my kids, wherever they are, whoever they are, my arms are open for them!