Family Needed

I have had the great pleasure of meeting so many fabulous people through the blogging world. It's amazing how different circumstances - circumstances that can bring you to your knees - can connect you with people who care - and who understand exactly what you're going through. Mainly because they've gone through it themselves.

Many, many months ago I was able to connect with Corey. She's beautiful and funny. She's an adoptive mom, too. And a RAD mom, too.

She and her family have had to make the most agonizing decision to disrupt the adoption of their 8 year old son. I hate to use the word disrupt because it makes it sound like they're giving up or being really casual about it... like taking a puppy back to the shelter if it gives you too much trouble.

That is NOT the case. Sometimes you just can't know what it's like unless you've walked in someone else's shoes. And, sometimes, you have to make decisions that just plainly make you want to die. The decisions hurt THAT much. And sometimes you just wish that you could trade places with your child... that all the trauma, and abuse... all the physical and sexual abuse.. sometimes you wish you could just absorb it all from your child so that they could be healthy again. Because you love them THAT much and it kills you that they're going through all this.

And sometimes you have to look at the children in your home. The other brothers and the sisters... and say, "I will not let you get hurt again." You look at your little girls and you wrap them in your arms and you beg and plead with God to make everything better. And so you try everything that you possibly can to help your child, but you know that if he come's back home that your other children will be hurt again.

So, because you love him and you want the very best for him, you make the agonizing decision of finding a new family for him. Because you know that he CAN heal, but not in your family. Not with so many young ones around.

I really hope that you'll visit Corey's blog. Maybe you know of someone who is looking to adopt. Maybe you know of someone who has experience in this area. Maybe YOU'RE the family that she's looking for.

But also, please visit her blog and lift Corey and her family up in prayer. She is in deep, deep pain. We need to pray that not only does God heal her son, but that He heals Corey's pain and the grief and the guilt that she's feeling. Please let her know how much she is loved.

http://watchingthewaters.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/family-needed/

Thanks.