They are a huge support in our lives as American Chinese Families.
Each year they honor waiting families and families that have just brought their children home with a candle lighting ceremony. This is the third year we have been part of it.
The first year we were waiting for Lily, the second year we were celebrating Lily being home, and this year we are waiting for Ty. Hopefully next year we will be celebrating Ty being home.
They presented each family with the poem below and then read it out loud. As they read this I looked at all of the precious children (with tears rolling down my cheeks and trying not to let it turn into one of those ugly cries) and thanked God for the miracle of adoption.
UNTIL FOREVER
This morning in China a mother cries
She’ll never forget her daughter’s eyes
Her heart is broken and filled with pain
The tears run down like the falling rain.
She has no choice but to leave her there
The cost of keeping is too much to bear
She hopes her daughter will one day know
True love can be found in letting her go.
This morning in China a baby cries
Hungry and scared as tears fill her eyes
Her mother has left her in this public place
Another lost daughter of the Chinese race.
Someone passing by has heard her soft moan
She’s soon quickly taken to a foster home
It’s here she’ll reside in the care of another
Until she’s adopted by a brand new mother.
That very same moment, in the U.S.A.
A woman cries as she starts to pray
Her heart is heavy but filled with much love
She prays for a daughter she thinks the world of.
“Dear Jesus I ask that your arms would be
Wrapped tightly around the one picked for me
Guard her in China ‘till I make my way
And then in my arms forever she’ll stay.”
December 24, 2003
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Holding hands
Looking at pictures of Lily
6 comments:
What a special tribute to motherhood and the sacrifices are made because of love. The pictures are too beautiful for words!
Precious! Love, Gamma
Emma, Lily and Jack have all grown so much. They look wonderful in their party clothes! Hope you all had a wonderful evening!
What a beautiful, moving poem. *sniff* Lily's so big now!! They all look so happy and healthy...yay!
beautiful.....I just may have to use that poem on a future post!
So cute! Lily has great taste...John is such a cutie!
Lily's party dress is beautiful. She looks so proud with it on.
I think K might get a computer for christmas...like mother, like daughter, right? Soon they'll be blogging too!
I love that poem (I just read it for the first time on Stef's blog a few minutes ago!) It is just beautiful. So are the pics of Lily at her party - she looks so cute in her little dress!
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