My Unexpected Transformation
In contrasting my pre- and post-Crisis Pregnancy lives, I never cease to be amazed. I have truly been transformed by my walk through the fear, wonder, sadness, beauty, and awe of an un-wed pregnancy and adoption. When I look at my present life, state-of-mind, and spiritual state, I leap for joy, amazed by the hedonistic starting product, the method of refinement, and the stunning finished products. I firmly believe in the old cliche "if it doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger"!
The thing that has impressed me the most about my experience with adoption through Covenant Care Services has been the fallacy of most people's perception of birth mothers and of the birth mother experience. I have not possessed the lack of love, the unending sadness, nor the regret that many assuming people predicted I would experience in making an adoption plan for my child. Rather, it has been an event through which I have increased my love, grown in my understanding of love, forged some very meaningful relationships within the family of God, felt an indescribably deep and unending peace, learned to use pain to grow, and come to trust in God (not myself!) to conduct my life. I have also had the pleasure of bringing into the world a precious and much-loved life.
I am eternally grateful to have been through this experience. In many ways, I feel I owe my life to it! I am walking proof the miracles can happen and the God is truly with us.
— Sarah |