This Birth Letter is so difficult. Difficult doesn't even hit the hammer on the nail to explain. No Words seem emotionally strong enough to tell your Future child's birth mother what you and your loving husband are like and what you can provide the child's future. I think everyone should have to write a Birth Letter the the Lord....Hmmm how many people could handle this letter?
The wording is the most challenging! I feel like I'm trying to write for a book for the Chicken Lover Soul! You know those stories that are touching, that capture your heart and drain your body of all the water you have consumed in the last month. That is the PROBLEM...I never feel completely as if it is perfect, and I know the only person perfect is the Lord. But yet, I want the Birth Mother to know me for me, Our hearts yearning for a child and our families praying daily for us.
You don't want to hurt the mother by saying we will raise our child...or do you say that so they will know you consider the child, yours? Awkward! And then you read the Adoption Birth letter Manual on the web and your still overwhelmed...So I've prayed, asked for prayers, and I think I might be done!
My loving husband just walked in and said, "It's the best letter." As sweet as he is, I still think I need to reread and rewritten!! One million times better. Only if I could wave a magic stick over the computer and say Birth letter be done! POOF....and it is done! I would say out of all of the papers asking why, what we are like, what we are able to deal and not deal with in life, this has and will always remain the struggle to me. The Birth Letter.....
You open your heart and poor your soul in a short letter, only to feel open to the world as it hits the space of the wide world web!!! I ask you, if you had to write a letter what would you say? How would it be worded to the future mother of your precious Miracle? Blessings!
Until the next Blog,,,,,,,,,,,Please pray for me to have an open heart to fill my heart with the correct and wonderful words of wisdom and love to flow onto the paper/pc! And for us to show our true person for who we are day to day. This is the Bible verse I found to help me!
Deuteronomy 31:6
"Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."
Mindy Opitz
I know that God has given you the words that convey who you and Derek are and what values are important to you. My big sis advice is to post it NOW. Don't get out the red pen to mark it up anymore. Post it and know that God will be with the birth mother as she is reading it.
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