A Glimpse

The following video has been swirling around "out there" the last couple of days, and I thought I would share it here in case you haven't seen it. I have talked before about the adoption of our children and the day they were placed into our arms by their loving birth parents. I have often stated that there were no words in the dictionary to describe the feelings for that moment. This video captures it well.

Hardly (if any) words are spoken in the video, yet so much is being said as the tears fall. If those tears could talk, each tear drop would say things like this:

• tears of thankfulness for the birth parents, for their gift
• tears of gratitude to God, for your gracious plan
• tears expressing our pleas to the Lord to be with our child's hurting first parents
• tears of respect for our children's birth parents for recognizing life, choosing adoption over abortion
• tears of shock - is this really our child? To keep??
• tears of surreal-ness: this can't really be happening - I am going to wake up soon
• tears of joy in how our child was created by a perfect and faithful Father
• tears of awe in how tiny a human can be!
• tears for the fears of the unknown ahead
• tears of happiness. Oh, the happiness
• tears of excitement of the future
• tears from all the years of wishing, wanting, desiring, hurting, disappointments, ups, downs, hopes and fears

Tears as opposed to words. Watch the video. It could very well have been Nathan and I sitting in those chairs.  But before you do,

Get a Kleenex

We are forever humbled by God's plan in ours and our children's lives. We continue to pray for our children's birth parents. And we pray hard that people who find themselves unable to care for their baby will choose adoption over abortion. Please pray with us about this.