Children

Beautiful Choice or Unglamourous Option?

Family. It is the closest thing to immortality this

side of the grave. Family is the past, the present and

the future. Family is for growing up in, for going away

from, for coming home to. Family is America's most

productive and efficient department of health and

human services. We are all a part of God's family, the

best of His creation. Real families bend but don't

break in responding to life's challenges.

This book honors, among others, young women

with crisis pregnancies who, though unmarried, boldly

and wisely developed adoption plans in the name of

Godly charity and true religion . With strength of

character, they carried their babies and preserved

their own health and self-worth. Then, by ushering

the new babies safely into the world at full term, the

birthmothers selflessly gave their babies something

that adoptive parents could not: birthdays.

Thereby concluding that chapter of their lives with

compassion and love, the birthmothers released their

babies to fill the aching voids in the hearts of childless

couples. In a sense, the babies were given life twice.

We need to express a very positive attitude toward

adoption and appreciate both the sorrow and joy that

adoption brings to those involved.

It is not just enough to be right in these matters.

Above all, the developing pre-born child is part of the

human family and deserves our welcome into and

guidance through life's noble journey. As the earth

rotates, the lives of natural and adoptive families are

often inexorably linked. This, in part, is also their

story. God often moves in mysterious ways to

complete the family circle.