Posted on 01/07/2013 5:13:31 PM PST by eeevil conservative
Thanks for blessing us with your story EC.
God Bless you and your Daughter..... Stay Safe !
AMEN! This Christmas was so different from any other for me...it was not a holiday..it was CHRISTmas...
It was redemption, forgiveness and new life....and He gave me my baby back in much better shape than we gave Him His Son back to Him!
Christmas will NEVER again just be a Holiday of joy and giving...it will always be a day of MIRACLES— a day that we celebrate a God that loves us beyond understanding and GIVES beyond our wildest dreams, beyond anything we would ever have begun to think we could possibly earn...
I am whole again....I can only imagine how He felt to have Jesus back with him....battered, tortured, and crucified...but His Son was Home Again!
This is a wonderful and inspiring personal story that could ONLY be told BECAUSE you chose life and G-d has blessed you for it threefold. What is more awesome than a G-d who gave you the chance to answer someone else’s prayers for a child they would otherwise have never had and returning her to you to share in that life once again?
I am so sorry for her loss and yours. Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent. My prayers are with all of you...and maybe finding you is G-d’s way of helping ease her pain.
Birth and rebirth. So Great is the Lord.
I wish you all the very best.
Super!! A friend of my dad who lost contact with his children (son and daughter) over forty years ago was contacted by his daughter. She was only six when they were taken from him in a divorce. They had a super re-union. The two kids spent almost twenty years trying to track him down.
Thank you for sharing your story. I wish many of Gods blessing to you all !
:)Santa brought you a big present.((((Hugs))))
So happy to hear a nice story. Not only should a bio mother be praised for giving life, it is also admirable to praise the parents who nurture the life of a child.
Congratulations to both of you. I have a friend who met her son after 42 years...he reminded her most of her father who recently passed away. Both your story and hers bring tears of joy!
I had been estranged from my 7 adult children since I split with (6 of their) mom back in '09.
I've been slowly rebuilding those relationships. This past Christmas brought yet another son back to me. That makes 4....and it made my Christmas season. Nothing compares.
The rest know I love 'em and will come around in time.
I am one of those very lucky people who were allowed to adopt. My children were mixed race and half grown, but I still cherish every moment. And now I too have grandchildren!
Wow sassy!
I will join you in praying for her birth mother...
For us, this is such a storybook, fairytale ending- and yet it is no ending at all, it is only the beginning...I know how extremely blessed I am, and that we are..
My kids are overjoyed. My daughter has never been a secret in our family...we remember her all the time...holidays, birthdays, vacations...we always know that she is missing. Our Core was shattered, and we know it, we don’t hide it...
it is amazing how different her parents are from me, yet how much she is like me..lol— not talking about physically— she is a pistol! full of game, competition, and humor....
yet— she is so like her mom and dad in so many ways too....
thank you again for sharing a part of your life with me...
thanks for that tip! It is on my list! will read!
Wow....just wow!
Cheers to you all....
ah yes! her mom and dad are so very precious to me....I am open to anything are willing to allow me to be a part of....
I dream of family reunions- not in the official sense, but in the sense of celebrating birthdays, and just life in general, my arms wrapped around the necks of her mom and dad, and never forgetting that THEY love her- in every way..
It is not that I didn’t love her enough to keep her, it’s that I loved her enough to let someone else love her and keep her safer and happier than I could...that meant letting her go, no matter how much it hurt...
I am so happy for you. I am an adoptee, and while I have never felt the need to find my birth parent(s), I can relate some. And while now there may be a discussion of forgivenness, may she or both of you come to embrace the decision you made then. One, not to abort. Two, in recognizing that you made a choice to give her a better life than you could provide at that time.
I think you'll like it (Scattered Siblings)
Lots of twists and turns and incredible coincidences.
How wonderful for you! Thanks for sharing your good news. I needed to hear a happy ending today.
Really cool!
Hugs and blessings to you! :)
Our daughter has known from the beginning that she is the most special souvenir anyone could ever bring home! We jokingly call her our LC (little commie), and she is always treated like a Russian princess. She is spoiled rotten by 2 older brothers, grandparents, aunts & uncles. She is such a blessing to our entire family!
God is good—I couldn’t have kids of my own (I was not a viable candidate for fertility), but I married the love of my life who already had 2 wonderful little boys (now they are married and one is a daddy!), so I went from none to 3. Isn’t it neat how God’s plan always works out even when we can’t see it happening? I remember how devastated I was when pregnancy NEVER happened, and how I just wanted my own child to call me “mommy” (my sweet boys call me by my first name). So our wonderful Russian girl is definitely icing on the family cake.
I knew she was ours before I even saw her—I know this sounds woo-woo, but I dreamed I held her and saw her babyroom in Russia. Then after that dream, 2 days later we were called by the agency to come look at pictures and she was the baby in the video. I just started crying and my husband knew she was the one. The hairs on my arms stood up the minute I saw the video. That’s definitely a God-thing!
Anyway, TMI probably, but I am crazy about my “kids.” And so thankful that God has blessed me with being their stepmom, adoptive mom...
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