Adoption

I came across the lyrics to this song on another adoption blog and thought I would share them. They made me stop and think. My heart is full this Holiday Season. Lots of love and emotion in our journey of adoption. It has been a learning and faith promoting experience and I am thankful for the opportunity we have had to grow and learn.

Cherie Call

"Delivery"

She was only seventeen and she knew she couldn't keep him

But at that very moment she wished that she could try

He was sleeping in her arms with his hand around her finger

When a woman came and told her it was time to say goodbye

So she wrapped him in a blanket as her tears fell on his head

And she sent him with a letter, and this is what it said;

"I delivered you from Heaven, from God's gentle loving care

And I've entrusted you to mortals who have wished and prayed you there

They will be your earthly parents

Listen well to what they say

So they can deliver you back to Heaven

And I'll meet you there someday"

One day a few weeks later someone gave her a letter

And as she read the words she had to wipe the tears away

It said, "We don't know how to thank you

There are things that words can't say

He's the sunshine and the happiness that brightens all our days

And we couldn't live without him, and we love him as our own

He has filled the empty spaces in our family and our home

You delivered him from Heaven, something only you could do

And you have trusted us to love him and to teach him what is true

You have been our earthly angel

And I hope you know we pray

That we can deliver him back to Heaven

And that we'll meet you there someday

And even though you may not get to hold him for a while

A piece of you will be with him

Every time he smiles

And when he looks at his reflection, he'll see traces of the face

Of the one who made the sacrifice to send him to this place

Last night we read a story of a man who had a son

Who was from a different father, but he loved him as his own

And as he laid Him in a manger there were angels that were singing

And he knew that as a father he would never be alone

There are times we feel like Joseph

We need help from up above

And when you gave your son, you showed that father's kind of love

When you delivered him from Heaven

From God's gentle loving care

And you entrusted him to mortals who had wished and prayed him there

And when this life's laid out before us

I hope we all can say

That we delivered this child together

When we meet again someday

We'll deliver him back to heaven

And we'll meet you there someday

If you would like to listen to the sample on her website... you can click here!