How life works
There is a zen saying that whenever a door closes, another opens and basically that sums up my life in general with maybe an added twist, which is that hardly ever has something great happened to me that wasn’t tempered by something not so great simultaneously occurring. So it is that life has a way of being awe inducing and humbling all in the same breath.
We entered the realm of adoption ignorant and every day we grow smarter. Our first interview with a birth mother went well but then the mother gave birth earlier than expected and decided to keep the baby. Putting a child up for adoption has got to be a tough road for any woman. Actually all the choices are tough choices – abortion, adoption, or raising a child.
Strangely enough, within the initial steps of meeting the first birth mother, we learned of another. So when the first door closed, another was already opening. The world is funny that way – it has a certain order – a mystery that remains unsolvable – I have faith our baby will know how to find us.