that you can leave someone you've only known a few days
and feel like a part of you is missing?
How do you fall in love with a child that isn't "yours?"
Not just find them cute...
but really fall in love?
I've been asking myself this question all week.
It's interesting that it can even happen.
And I think I have the answer.
Motherhood encompases much more
than raising children who came from your womb.
A mother's heart can
grow
and grow
and grow.
It's capacity is endless.
God has shown me how love
"other people's babies"
simply because I'm willing to.
There's no secret formula.
You don't have to be Mother Theresa.
You just have to be willing
to let them in
and to allow yourself time.
There's something extraordinary
about chosing to mother
a child that has been thrown away.
What a privelage, what a gift.
It will change you forever.
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