Last night we watched
this movie and within 10 minutes of watching i burst out crying, deep, heavy crying of past hurt and sadness for their story.
it's just a movie. a story of two people who tried everything to get pregnant and have children. but it did not happen. she went to the doctors, which gave them their fate - you will never be able to have your own children. that night, before 'moving on', the two of them sat on the couch and talked about what 'their kid would be like'. everything their kid would achieve and be. loved and be loved. then they realised it will just be that, dreams... wishes... they put them all in a box and buried the box in their backyard.
many a night my husband and i sat dreaming and talking about what 'our children' one day will be like. we went into every detail.... what they would look like. how they would act towards other people... how we want our children to grow up to be kind and compassionate people with hearts so full of love, that they will change the world. we imagined how much joy they would bring to the world, how they would love life and everything about it. how much we would love them. how we would never be able to imagine our lives without them... how our hearts would burst with love and joy all in once.
for us, that too, was just dreams... wishes... because we were not destined to have our own children. this movie took me (us) back into our infertility journey, slab dab right in the middle of our grief. i cried like i have not cried in the past few years... the crying and tears coming from the depths of my soul. i did not realised that i can still cry about something i've cried for over 10years... 10 years of waiting and hoping and praying for a child... the never-ending hurting and sadness of not being able to have our own children.
we went to bed talking about the
beautiful children who lost their lives in the shooting on friday in connecticut... and the millions of children who will never know what it feels like to be loved, to have a mommy and a daddy, their own family, the millions of children who would never know what it feels like to be hugged and loved by 'their mommy and daddy', all the while watching our 2 beautiful children sleep. our hearts aching for what we (thought) we could never have. the (gratitude and) magnitude of the one wish we had of being a mommy and a daddy, which God answered for us through the magic of adoption.
we cried ourselves to sleep last night. my last thoughts were of the healing that is still taking place 5 years later after our prayer of becoming parents were answered... i told m3
'healing is still taking place... God knew what He was doing'.
breakfast in bed
playing doll in the tent
the magic of music and wanting to learn...
the magic of gratitude & little notes in little xmas trees
i had the most perfect moment on sunday... my aunt and godchild was sharing their creative juices with
some xmas magic... my (OUR) children were running around laughing and screaming...
the magic of a little boy... Father Xmas came last night and 'forgot' one of his gifts on the table (because Father Xmas was testing it out..hehe.. ). this morning kellen saw it, asked about it and then when he wanted to show us, it just disappeared. he left a note and picture of the gift to remind Father Xmas. the note reads: 'Father Xmas, green ipad please'. :-)
the magic is every where... look around you...
how many nights of despair and sadness were there. days of being angry with God for not responding. for not making one understand why? why not us? isn't that what You promised each of us in the Bible? what did i do wrong? make me understand this! you call out to God from the depths of your soul. you want to know..you NEED to know what the plan is He has for your life, because in the moments of despair and sadness, nothing, absolute nothing makes sense.
i wished and prayed for children even when i was not praying. i lived praying for them. holding onto God's promise for us.
He delivered. not the way we thought He would. our children did not come through us.
but He gave us our children through His love.
we are a mama and daddy, because of His love for us. and His love for them.
we will raise our children to know and love God, for He surely am the beginning and the end.
