“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.”
Robert Brault
Author Archives: The Swannies
Wednesday Wisdom 23/12/2015
“The church absolutely must be leading the way in orphan care. It’s not a negotiable; it flows from the reality of the Gospel.”
David Platt
Wednesday Wisdom 16/12/2015
“As we become more attuned to the Gospel, we’ll have more of a burden for orphans”
Russell Moore
Wednesday Wisdom 9/12/2015
“Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.”
Elbert Hubbard
Wednesday Wisdom 2/12/2015
“If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn’t have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way, my daughter. “
Nia Vardalos
Wednesday Wisdom 25/11/2015
“Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it’s incredible and surprising.”
Nia Vardalos
Wednesday Wisdom 18/11/2015
“Orphan care is the outliving of the indwelling Christ in us.”
David Platt
Wednesday Wisdom 11/11/2015
“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior. ”
D.A. Carson
Adoption Involves Letting Go
Brilliant short piece on the “letting go” by all involved in the adoption process.
Adoption involves letting go.
Some let go of their dream of having children biologically. (Infertility)
Others let go of their dream of having children who look similar to them. (Transracial adoption.)
The foster moms and dads who take care of these little and not-so-little beings let go of babies they were with night and day.
We had to let go of the dream of nurturing a little one from his/her earliest hours. I wanted to watch every single moment of development myself, even with the risk of birth mother changing her mind in the allotted 60 days.
Hearing the social worker’s report that she smiles, brought a pang of pain. Why was she smiling in foster care instead of with me?
The birth mothers (and fathers sometimes) regretfully also let go.
Will you be the one who lets go of your preconceptions and receives what someone else had to let go?
I was there when our daughter’s mother, seeing her after three and a half months, told her as she let go, “Here’s your Mommy.” She let go, trusting that the gift I received would be held onto for dear life.
One day our girl will see the full picture. Not just me receiving, but the mother whose hand can be seen in this photo-letting go.
We need more people to open up their hands to receive.
* This was posted on a personal blog on Facebook, go and check out her page at Imperfect Mom of Three
Wednesday Wisdom 4/11/2015
“In adoption, God takes us into his family and fellowship—he establishes us as his children and heirs. Closeness, affection and generosity are at the heart of the relationship. To be right with God the Judge [justification] is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father [adoption] is a greater. “
J.I. Packer
Across Divides 