When we first started considering adoption, I thought of it in happy terms.
"There is a baby who needs a family. We want a baby." Happy.
But there's another side of this that I hadn't considered until I started reading 20 Things Adopted Children Wish Their Parents Knew.
The side of grief.
The child that we will adopt has been abandoned. Abandoned through death or poverty. He isn't about to go to an orphanage or in an orphanage right now for happy reasons. He is there because he has been given up because his parents couldn't afford to feed him or his parents have died. His parents could be doing the most loving and most brave thing in the world for him by placing him in an orphanage to be adopted to the United States, but it won't be happy or easy.
If my husband and I passed away right now, our children would technically be abandoned. But, we already know that they would go to a couple we love dearly who would take such good care of and love them.
But it wouldn't be happy for a while.
So, if you're praying for this child, as we are, please pray with us that he will know our Savior's love, when he is taken to the orphanage and as he is waiting for us, and that he will be able to embrace our love when the time comes.
