A Reflection from an Older Adoptee
There are so many questions that I get as an older adoptee. “So, you remember everything?” “Wow, what was that like?” “Do you miss it?” Yes, I do remember. Of [...]
A Reflection From An Adopted Child
I was adopted as an infant. The people who reared me are my parents. So are the people who caused my birth. But the ones who were there every day, [...]
Visiting Laura, Our Birth Mother
Springs of Love contributor Gabriela shares her experience meeting her daughter’s birth mother in their open adoption. See more content in our section Birth Mom Love. “We’ll be there at [...]
A Letter to Our Birth Mom In Our Closed Adoption
Springs of Love contributor Gabriela shares a letter she wrote to her daughter's birth mother. See more content in our section Birth Mom Love. Dear Rosa, What would I want [...]
Blossoms
I sat beneath an apple tree in bloom the last time I nursed my firstborn daughter. Sunlight streamed through petals and tears streamed down my face. In May, in Wisconsin, [...]
Love and Compassion Out of Suffering: A Heart for Adoption and Foster Care
Our family’s path to pursue foster care and adoption is born out of our faith and our desire to offer up our suffering and channel it into compassion and love. [...]
Birth Mothers Are My Heroes
As a young child, I always had an affinity for adoption. Though I did not know anyone who was adopted, I held the idea of adoption deep in my heart. My love [...]
Be It Done Unto Me: The Daily ‘Yes’ of Foster Care and Adoption
Ring… ring… my cell phone chirps. “Hello, Danielle speaking…” It’s just an ordinary day in the life of a foster parent; at an unknown time and an unknown hour I [...]
A Personal Reflection for Parents Adopting Children with Disabilities
Like with many of my recent reflection opportunities, I came to Springs of Love by way of social media. I can't remember where I first saw their post on Facebook, [...]
Trusting God’s Plan
Four years into my marriage and a year into our adoption journey, I sustained a back and neck injury that left me bedridden at times with chronic pain and increasingly [...]
Grace
Blog author Kristen Templin writes about her struggles with infertility, and the grace of finding motherhood through fostering and adoption. Oh, I can still feel the heartache—even 20 years later. The [...]
A Special Needs Adoption
Today we welcome new contributor Gabriela, who writes about adopting a special needs baby. Asked to consider writing a reflection on special needs adoption, my first reaction was shock – [...]
