For a planner...

... This adoption stuff is pretty scary. I have absolutely no control over what is happening, and sometimes that really freaks me out. At least I can trust that it's in the Lord's hands. We read about Joshua yesterday in Sunday School. "Be strong and courageous"... That's what it's going to take! Please God, help me not turn to the right or to the left.

Mother's Day

This Mother's Day brings me both joy and tears. I am so lucky to have my girls! They are such smart, talented, compassionate, nurturing little future mothers. They teach me more about myself than I could have learned from anyone else. I reflect on the values I have expressed to them as the most important ones you can have: Love God, and love others. Everything else stems from that. On the other hand I know that there are children in the world who today and every other day, don't have "mom". For whatever reason they are separated from the woman who was supposed to love, protect, nurture, and hold them. I know adoptive mothering is going to be fundamentally the same, but so much different than biological mothering. "Claiming the right to parent a child with profound loss (which all adoptive children have), doesn't mean we are there to remove their loss or right to greive it. We are there to help our children bear it, which they can do through the security of knowing us. being held by us, and communicating with us" (Sheena McRae).