Using my quasi-stalking post as a jumping off point, I was going through my Google Reader some few minutes or so ago and read the most recent post of a birth mom I blog stalk. Maybe I'll comment on one of her posts sometime so I'll go from stalking to following.
Anyway.
In her most recent post, she referred to the post of a friend of hers, who referred to a post from September 2008 on the Families Supporting Adoption: American Fork blog. Apparently Glenn Beck and his wife, Tania, were the keynote speakers a the 2008 FSA conference, and the post is the transcript of their talks. [Speeches? Addresses? What should I be calling it? I just don't know.]
So anyway, whether you love Glenn Beck or hate him [I, personally, am rather indifferent], you should read the story he and his wife shared. It is so beautiful. I was very touched. These were the parts that were particularly meaningful to me:
"The great thing about the Lord is, He’s predictable. I mean, all you have to do is read the scriptures and it’s the same story over and over again. . . . Before blessings, before real blessings, the Lord just pounds you into the ground. . . . He takes you and puts you out in the desert, and He just pounds you into the ground. . . . And in that trial, you can be saying one of two things: “Water, water! Help me! Why me? Why me? Help me, help me! Water!” Or you can be saying, “What is it You want me to do? I will do, I will give. I give! Just point me there. The water may be a long way away, but just show me, Lord, which way to walk.” And when you get there, eventually He’ll give you the answer, and then He will so richly bless your life."
and:
"I know with everything in me that our children selected us in the premortal existence. I know that we stood around and we were honored when that soul looked at us and said, 'I want you as my dad, and I want you as my mom. Somehow or another we’ll find each other.' It’s not just getting any child. It’s sometimes waiting for that soul who is trying desperately to fulfill their side of the bargain and to fulfill what you guys set out to do in the first place and to be reunited with his family for time and all eternity. But getting there sometimes, you have to walk through the desert. But once you get out of the desert, water has never tasted sweeter."
and about his son's birth mom:
"This little girl was a hero. She was a remarkable superhero. Raphe doesn’t need Spiderman or Superman; he’s got his natural mother as an example of what real superheroes do. Real superheroes don’t think about themselves. Real superheroes don’t make their life all about them. Real superheroes do the hard thing, and I can’t imagine anything tougher than giving birth to a child and giving that child away and then wondering your whole life what’s happening in his day."
I love his words and how he told his story and expressed his feelings on adoption. I hope you guys have the chance to read the entire transcript, because it is really touching.
Something else that really touched me today was this:
One of the things that touched me so much was how many countries were celebrating this temple. Sam and I have been so blessed here in Utah to have a church just down the street and a temple 10 minutes away. It makes me shiver [in an excited, thrilled kind of way] to think that in just a few months we could be in an area like this--where the church is so small and temples are so rare. I just think of the incredible work we have ahead of us, and all the things Heavenly Father has ready for us on our path, and I can barely stand waiting. I'm so beyond excited.
xoxo
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