A Love Story

...Because that's what adoption is. A love story. Lately, I've had the incredible opportunity to begin dialogue with my future son's birth mother.  We've been emailing daily through an email account we have set up through our agency. This has been an amazing experience for us.  I know that this opportunity may look very different for different people who are matched up with different birth moms but our experience has been a truly unique blessing to us. Before we began this process, we would have never guessed that we would have developed such a relationship with the mother of our child. Of course, we had hope that we'd get the opportunity to meet her and to talk with her but we never expected something quite like this. Our daily emails to each other read like love letters to our son from two women that love him with an indescribable love. The emails are something Matt and I will absolutely share with our son when he is older.

You can only imagine what talking with your child's birth mother is like. It's a bit scary at times. I'm always afraid I am going to say something wrong or maybe show how excited I am and that will sadden her. But our child's birth mother and I have been able to talk through each other's feelings and fears and we share in each other's joy of this whole process. God has SO blessed us and protected us by matching us up with this amazing women who really knows what God wants for her son's life and she is confident in her choice to place her child for adoption. Corresponding with us and knowing how we feel and how we're preparing for the little man only reinforces her decision that we are the right adoptive parents for him.

Our number one prayer when we started this adoption process last October was that our child and his birth parents would come to know and love Jesus. That was our biggest prayer. The prayer that trumped any and all of our other prayers through the process. I believe that God has already begun to answer that prayer.  Our birth mother this week shared her testimony and revealed to us that through this pregnancy and through this adoption, she has become a believer when she wasn't before. She attends church and a weekly bible study. How amazing is that?! She is who we have been praying for all this time and God has answered that prayer.

Her faith and her love for her son only inspires me to be a mother that loves selflessly and that cherishes this precious gift forever. Getting to know her has changed me..for the better.

In two weeks we will travel to Texas to meet her and I really believe we will hug like old friends by then. I am so excited to talk with her face to face and to be SO close to the son God has chosen for us. Time is creeping too slowly for all of us. Pray for all of us as the time draws near where a mother's selfless love will change for good the lives of so, so many.