Poem: Roots

Tonight CAC Adoption Advocate and Birth Mother, Lori, shares a beautiful poem she wrote about growth through adversity. We pray her words would be an encouragement to your heart wherever you are at in the adoption journey.

Roots
by Lori Dortch

Inception from seed
Overcame adversity
Threw off the outer shell
Sensed direction, not by smell
Pointed, arched or curled
Sensory unfurled
Used gravity’s assistance
downward reaching persistence
Through rough and dry terrain
Clung just the same
Sent deeper still
Unaware of upward till
Fortified, gained strength
Shifted soil and shank
Absorbed nutrients
Filled up existence
Rose taller up above
Something grown in solid love
Unmovable, unshakable
Unstoppable, unbreakable
Until it was broken
Cause, unspoken
Plucked with clumps of dirt
A promise “this won’t hurt”
Sat down once again
Girded up with friends
Of gold and silver adornment
More than ones allotment
The endless riverbank home
Not on a rocky dome
Flourishing may commence
A confirmed recompense

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:3 (NIV)

At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant. Job 14:7-9 (NIV