My Journey of Adoption

Warm and loving greetings to everyone,

From my heart to yours, I would love to share yet another part of myself, which is my life as an adopted child. I created a video that was inspired by my love of and for adoption, those loving individuals who choose to adopt, those children who are waiting to be adopted and who have found a family, my birthparents who gave me life and a chance to love and my foster parents, who helped me to live my life and guided me in loving unconditionally. This movie was inspired by love.

Have any of your lives been touched by adoption in any way? I would love to hear your stories, so please feel free to share and/or ask questions. I would love to share too. :)

To see the video I created, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-_l9PUthc. I had placed some beautiful, meaningful music to go with it, but I had to change it for Youtube because it was copyright. If you would like the original video, let me know and I can send it to you. In place of the songs I had originally chosen, there is a song about flying like an angel, which I think is quite suitable (hopefully it has uploaded already). :) It lasts for most of the film but the last part is silence-there is such profound beauty in silence.

I would love to share with you my favourite adoption poem...

~Legacy of an Adopted Child~

Once There were two women, one you do not remember, the other you call mother. Two different lives shaped to make yours one. One became your guiding star, the other became your sun. The first gave you life, and the second taught you to live it. The first gave you a need for love and the second was there to give it. One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name. One gave you the seed of talent, the other gave you an aim. One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears. One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears. One shared you with another family-it was all that she could do. The other prayed for a child, and God led her straight to you. And now you ask me through your tears, the age-old questions through the years; heredity or environment-which are you the product of? Both, my darling, both, just two special kinds of love.

~Author Unknown~

Love always,
Florence

Me when I was little :)

Me when I'm older! :)