Today CAC Adoption Advocate & Birth Mother Lori shares a beautiful poem she wrote entitled, "Limits." We pray it would minister to your heart and encourage you. Limits by Lori Dortch More often than notWe limit what we’ve gotWhat we experience andHow farStands in the wayOf ...
Birth Mother Perspective: The Flap
The Flap — written in 2014, while parenting my pre-teen girls. At this time, I was experiencing the loss of their youngest and purest form of childhood, and yet, it felt eerily familiar to the loss I’d experienced when placing my son. A similar, almost overwhelming, version of growth began brewing ...
Birth Mother Perspective: When Two Women Answer To Mom
When two women answer to the title mom, it is not a competition. Pride cannot push or repel.Insecurity shouldn’t build a wall.Fear cannot become rigid.Doubt shouldn’t prevent contact.Grief cannot speak negatively toward the other. The name mother is an honor all by itself, but when two or more are ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Grief
I once read a book that painted a picture of miscarried and lost fetal children as playing in heavenly fields of wildflowers and cascading waterfalls in a realm with their Creator: Jesus. And I read another book from the perspective of a father writing to his unborn, aborted, yet loved, children. He ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Be Still
Continuing with the theme of how joy and grief reside in adoption, tonight we have a guest post by Jennifer Woolley. Jennifer is a birth mom, adoptive mom and advocate of open adoption. She speaks openly about her story and is boldly breaking stigmas, supporting, educating and mentoring everyone she ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Sadness
This month over at CAC we will be exploring two complex emotions experienced by all parties of the adoption triad: joy and grief. To many outside of the adoption circle, there is a misunderstanding that adoption is all "rainbows and butterflies." But those who have stepped into adoption in any ...
Adoptee Perspective: My Identity Is Found In God
This month we have been focusing on "the wait" in the adoption journey from all different sides of the adoption triad. Last week we shared an adoption story with you from the perspective of an adoptive family. They wrote about the long journey that led them to their baby girl. Earlier this week CAC ...
Birth Mother Perspective: The Ring (A Poem)
A ring is a symbol, a promise of forever. When we put it on, it's like putting on faith, hope and love, but we have to wait for time. We wait for forever. We wait for our promises to unfold. We wait hopefully for the God-ordained partner, child, relationships and opportunities. With my son, I ...
