Their story is very different from ours but it was a really good read. I really enjoyed reading how Mary dealt with having two families and the conflict and feelings that brought. But what impacted me the most was the highs and lows of her relationship with her birth mom.
Because Naomi suffered so much abuse and neglect (talk about polar opposites) from her birth mom I have never thought much about her because it was too painful. Naomi does not have fantasies about her birth mom which many adopted children do.
But the other day Naomi said something to me that shows that no matter what her birth mom did to her, she still thinks about her. She asked me if we could pray for her birth mom. I said sure and asked her what she wanted to pray about and she said that her birth mom would become a Christian. I said that we would pray for that tonight and she asked if we could pray right now, so we did.
As much as we are her family we have to remember that she is connected to other people out there. Who are her grandparents? Does she have siblings? Cousins? Do they ever think of her? Do they even know about her?
I wonder if Naomi will want to search for her birth mom some day.
With all these questions going on in my mind I started to feel really sad that I never held Naomi as a baby. We adopted her after she had just turned 2 years old.
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