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Grace
As an adoptee reunited this past summer with both bparents, I feel twice blessed. Blessed with an afamily who loved me and guided me and always believed I was their child, their sister, their niece, their grandchild. I was never treated differently. And, now that both my parents are gone, I have gotten to know the incredible people who gave me up with love - the baton being passed, kind of, full circle. My bparents were too young to raise me so they gave me to my parents for 50 years. And now, it is my bparents turn again.
I told my bdad at our first f2f that I had never understood grace, in my heart. But now I live it - the fact that I was found at all is a miracle. God chose my afamily and chose the time for reunion. I didn't really work for it, I didn't earn it, and I certainly don't deserve the unconditional love I have received. God's grace - given unconditionally. It may not be as exciting as parting the Red Sea, but in my life it is a miracle.
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