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Live and Let Live
... Some people still can't understand
why I didn't just get an abortion. But
it's not for them to understand.
Because I'm the one who made the
decision and am living with it ... Not a
day goes by I won't think about him
and wonder how he is. But there will
never be a day
I'll
look back and
regret it, either. The day I saw him
and held him, I knew I was his
mother, but could never have been his
parent ... But I also believe that there
is a couple that is meant to raise him.
If
they try half as hard as my parents
have, I know it will have been worth
my time -- and pain, to give him the
opportunity not only to live, but to
have the best life possible.
I read a little definition in the church bulletin some
years ago that went like this -- a little girl recently gave
her definition of "adoption." She said, "It's when you
love someone and you ask them to come and live with
you." Simplicity is still the best way to say a thing, isn't
it? God loves us too, and He has also adopted us as
sons. And as our children became Christians early in
their second decade, they became honest-to-goodness
adopted sons and daughters of God and joint heirs
with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom, forevermore.
We always felt very comfortable talking to our kids
about the subject of adoption. As our adopted
children, they were deliberately chosen whereas other
parents have no choice in the matter. To show that
blood kinship is not necessary for genuine love, we
used ourselves as an example? Mom and I chose each
other, and although we were strangers at one time, as
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