For the last couple days I’ve been soaking in this song.

This song touches my heart as I find myself, once again, waiting for my baby to come home.  Adoption is such a raw, emotional, and challenging journey.  And this part, this period of waiting, is one of the hardest parts.  Right now my baby girl is a world away from me.  Someone else is tucking her in each night, someone else is bathing her, feeding her, and holding her when she cries.  I would do anything, anything, to bring her home. This waiting, longing, and hoping is painful, but I highly recommend it.  We all need to be reminded that we are longing for something, that we are reaching for something that seems just out of reach. We are not home yet.

This song stirs my heart and brings tears to my eyes when I think about my baby girl, but when I’m reminded that my God feels the same way about me, I am in awe.  My love and longing for our little girl is only a fraction of God’s love and longing for me.  He has my picture on His piano.  That’s one of the wonderful things about adoption and parenthood.  Every time I think I have plunged the depths of sacrifice and love for our children, I’m reminded that I haven’t even scratched the surface of God’s love and sacrifice for me.