Adoption Month in my Heart

It was 11 years ago this month when the first homestudy was done, and only two months later got the news that Ravi would be joining our family.

January is always adoption month in my heart.

I just wanted to share a friends poetry, in the event that any of you are thinking about adoption, whether domestic adoption (in the US) or international adoption (obviously outside of the US).

Adoption solves two problems. Parentless children get parents, and childless parents get children. Of course it is more important that that. I believe that there is a possibility for the cosmos to be in such alignment that the right children would be in the right families. I believe this is true for adoptive families too.

If you are interested in adoption from India, visit ICHILD for more information about how to get started. Please use caution as you investigate adoption agencies. Not all of them are as forthright as you would hope. Our family used C hildren's Home Society and Family Services for the first adoption and Dillon International for the second adoption. My third adoption was an independent adoption, but with some help from CHSFS to actually get her home.

The following poem was written by my friend Margo, a few years ago after the adoption of her second child.

I AM NOT AN ORPHAN

By Margo Venkateswaran

I'm not an orphan I'm a child of god
I am loved from up above
I'm not an orphan and not alone
I have many children in which I share a home
I may have no one to call mother or dad
but god loves me and that makes me glad.
One day I may be in someone's arms
but until that day I will remain strong
someone once whispered in my ear
I love you so my little dear
and somehow I know this I did not imagine
someone loved me
someone loves me
someone will love me
I'm not an orphan though my clothes are not new
Im just a child who's waiting for you
but dont think of me as poor and sad
god has given me life and for that be glad
do you ever wish you had someone at your table
someone to follow you through your lonely house?
When you need company more of that than your spouse?
you can think of me, but not as an orphan or someone weak, think of someone with a great will who could fill a void
if you would sit still and hear the silence
of a home without a child
but I am not an orphan
for I am god's child
unique.

Jyotsna