From Birth to Now

Many older child adoptees had their needs met between birth, through foster care, and when they were adopted. However, there are others that have had a very difficult time with life. There is a constant uneasiness about "who I am," and "where am I going." What was like supposed to be like? Refect on some of the following words:


For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
-- Psalm 139:13

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
-- Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

Deep Inner Longings:

the deep longing for parenting;
the deep longing for companionship and emotional development;
the deep longing for power and freedom, and
the deep longing for meaning and purpose.

from Recovering Connections by Richard D. Grant, JR. Ph.D and Andrea Wells Miller


Many older child adoptees have these deep longings. What do you do if you have these desires? More to come...