[robinsnest005]

I just bought an album by Mark Schultz (christian singer who was adopted) he wrote a beautiful song on his new album about adoption and I wanted to know more so I checked out his web site and read the following in his bio......

One of the highlights of the record is “Everything to Me,” a song Schultz co-wrote with Cindy Morgan. “I was adopted and I just wanted to write a song about it,” says Schultz. “So we started into it and we got the first two lines: ‘I must have felt your tears when they took me from your arms/I’m sure I must have heard you say goodbye.’ And Cindy just lost it because she’s a mother with two kids.”

Cindy and Mark discussed the love and courage it must take for a woman to give up a child, knowing she could never give her child the things he needed. “I’ve had such a good life. I have the best parents in the world so I wanted it to be a song to thank my birth mom for giving me the opportunity to live,” he says displaying the kind of transparency that makes people immediately connect with his work. “It’s almost like taking her hand and walking her through my life when I was little and playing baseball with my dad, the prayers at night with my folks, and my mom reading ‘Goodnight Moon.’ Then back to what would it be like if we met on the street. Would you know it was me? Would you just kind of know?”

Schultz hopes the song will bring peace to women who’ve given children up for adoption. “I loved the line that says, ‘Was this the dream you had in mind when you gave me up? You gave everything to me.’ I think hopefully birth moms will hear this song and just say, ‘You know what? I feel good!’ I would think there’s a certain amount of wondering they would do and that it would be really, really hard. So I wanted to say to my birth mom and all birth moms that life is pretty precious and just to get the chance to live is pretty awesome.”

I hope that this is a word of encouragement for all of you who are trying to make decisions. May God bless each of you!
Robin

[EmorysMamma]

Thank you so much for posting that, it does make me feel good!