Baby For Sale ...

After work, I was driving along, praising God because I had ended up in a confrontation.  Seems I had insulted someone MONTHS ago and it finally boiled over!  I was clueless.  It had been one of those satirical remarks my humor is so well known for - and someone, not even the target, got hurt feelings.  Uhm ... fighting the urge to say it ....

So, we had a meeting.  They gave their complaint, I let them know I was surprised by their take on the remark and apologized.  We shook hands, end of matter I should expect.  But, Satan is a wily creature, I have no doubt this will explode from another direction later.  If one person could be sidelined, there will be another too ...

As I drove away, I was praising God!  Think about it, clueless Kris had a problem with someone at work and was clueless.  No news there - but it had been resolved in a Godly manner!  And that is something to praise God about!

Then on the side of the road, by a supermarket enterance, sat an older lady all wrapped up against the cold.  A huge sign read, "Fight Abortion, Adopt a Baby".  Next to her, her very pregnant daughter ...

Did not take much to put the clue together.

And I was now sad, very sad.  For I know of no one looking for a child at this time.

For me, one could be tempted to adopt again.  But it has been almost 20 years since I last adopted and it was a mighty pain, not to mention extremely expensive.

But a human life, is a human life.  So, I pray for that unborn child, for God's intervention into both its and the mother's life.  Known to many  whom shared their pain at having adopted out their child, to many whom now adults were adopted at birth and struggle with why their mother would abandon them ...

All of my children are healthy psychologically over being adopted, they realize they had nothing, not even a family.  As dysfunctional as mine can be at times, it was more than what they had.  My oldest daughter gets it.  She can see her children and the differences between them and her at their age.  Family, any family, even a dysfunctional family, if better than not having one at all.

I type this with my youngest grandchild at my feet (literally!), meowing and trying to lick my leg.  I had told her mother that adoption would have been better than marriage to the father.  I was right, the marriage was over before the daughter was born.  But, years later I love having my grand-daughter one day a week, which would not have been possible had she be adopted out.  However, even at three this little one understood something was wrong with her mother.  And it still hurts her, the rejection my daughter had caused in this little one's life ...

All children need a full time family. Sorry, that is just how God built us ...