Lifting Burdens

When everything else falls apart there is always somewhere to turn. What a wonderful blessing!! Adoption hurts, even though it blesses the lives of so many people it still hurts.

What is there to hold on to when the pain is more than you can bare? When everything is unfair? When we feel unappreciated? Hold on to love. Love for that precious innocent child. Hold on to the appreciation your child will feel for you and your sacrifice! Hold on to the Savior. Seek the Father's advice, he knows what it is like to sacrifice! Hold on to the reasons!

This video entitled, Lifting Burdens is so good!! The Atonement is real and has a precious healing power that can remove even the deepest pain. It can be personally tested! I know it! I have felt it. Sometimes I forget and let the pain and frustration over take me, but when it comes right down to it....I know that I made the right choice. I know that I can be healed! I know that my little boy I placed will love me forever and that makes my heart leap for joy! I had a sweet experience with him in the hospital when I was with him in the hospital. I asked him if he would love me forever, he gave me a big smile and his eyes were bright and full of promise!

Somewhere to start

I have been asked to blog a bit about adoption. YIKES! Hopefully it turns out.

Yesterday I met with Sandy over at LDS Family Services and she asked me if I would like to be something like a birth mother liaison. I'm really excited! We haven't come up with an official name for me yet but I'm officially in! I already have assignments! I'm excited to get to know the girls more, I always learn so much from all of the girls. It'll definitely take me out of the comfort zone of my own little world but I'm excited to venture out and help others. Hopefully I'll do a good job. Lets cross our fingers and pray for a few miracles!

I've loved being involved with the adoption community so far, I have been so lucky! The doors have just kept opening up for me and I've been given so many opportunities to give back and return the love and support that I have been shown by SO many people!

I was recently a member of the planning committee for the Nationwide Adoption Conference. Talk about busy! I learned so much at those planning meetings and it was awesome getting to know a few more birth moms that share my passion with adoption. I am always amazed at the wonderful girls I get to meet all the time! I was invited be one of the birth moms on the main birth mother panel-I was terrified. I was the "newest" birth mom there. Everyone else had years under their belt and I just have one year....still working out the tough kinks that come with open adoptions. Hard work!! There was a birth father on the panel too, talk about touching! I don't think that I have ever really thought about the feelings of the birth fathers out there. I think that we have placed a stereotype on them when in reality they are impacted as well. I'll get more into that one a little bit later.