Dear Little One,
I just left your room. It was filled with nurses offering you their love and care. You were being rocked in the arms of our Nurse Supervisor. You are beautiful and perfect, and in these moments deeply loved and cared for. It was our Nurse Supervisor who loved you enough to bend the rules to care for you when your mother realized the greatest gift of love she could give you was to give you away.
As you grow up, in the family that will be blessed by your presence, it might be hard for you to understand how your birth mother could love you and still give you away. As strange as that might seem, it takes great love and courage to give the life of your precious child, who was nurtured in your own body and whom you cared for day and night, into the care of others who can give the child what you know you cannot.
I never met your mother, but by this one act, I know she spent many hours searching her heart and mind before she brought you here. I know that on that journey she was guided by one thing and one thing only—her deep and abiding love for you. Only in such deep and abiding love can any woman find the strength to search her own heart and mind and spirit and make the unselfish decision to give over a child of her own body into the care of strangers who can care for the wellbeing of that child in ways she has come to realize she cannot. This and your own life are the two great gifts your birth mother has given to you. You may never know what legacy of hers you have come into as far as temperament, talent, physical characteristic and intellect. What you can know is that in your heart is her heart, for you once shared the same blood, and from her heart on this day has come an act of love and compassion, courage and unselfishness which prays only for you and that you may grow and mature into a adult who can make real in your own life these same great gifts. With her heart you are never alone for she will always be a part of you.
This world can seem a difficult place sometimes, and though I pray it will not be for many, many years, you will at points in your life feel alone and afraid. That is simply the lot of we human beings share. When you face those times with whatever other comforts you may come to know along the way of your life, my prayer for you is that you know your birth mother for her gift of love and that you be comforted by the knowledge that when you could not care for yourself you were delivered into the arms of those who could. Though they did not know you, they loved and cared for you with the same tenderness and devotion as if you had been born to them. With their hearts you are never alone and yours will always be a part of theirs as well.
Know, dear Little One that the hearts and prayers of all who have been called to care for you are with you all your days.
God’s best all the days of your life,
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