Welcome to Heartprints!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
For a long time I have mused about having a blog where I could not only share my thoughts and insights about adoption but where I could also read your comments. Finally that day has come.
Heartprints Adoption is a blog where you will learn and also be inspired. It is your blog so feel free to participate. Your thoughts do matter!
Years ago I read a simple poem. Although I can't remember much of it I can still see those two line...' Oh please where ever I go today..help me to leave heartprints'. I pictured people going around leaving beautiful heartprints of compassion and understanding and love on each others lives.
My experience of adoption which began more than fourteen years ago has given me countless opportunities to leave heartprints on the lives of two precious girls who are now fourteen and seven years old. I will be writing more about them in the days to come. They are the joys of my life. My jewels.
They were both adopted from Russia at different times. Although their stories are unique there are also many common threads. From the moment I gazed at their pictures my heart was deeply moved. In both cases I knew my child.
I longed for the day I would hold them in my arms. I found myself pulling out the tiny picture again and again to memorize their features. Even as I gazed deeply into the photo their life was making heartprints on mine. They are forever heartprints which have changed my life.
How has adoption changed your life? Your child is leaving heartprints all over you. Precious touches which I know you cherish too.
Pay attention today to the heartprints which you are leaving. Sense the heartprints that are being made on the life of your child. Those heartprints will last much longer than you and I. They will live on in your child forever. Sometimes all it takes is a fresh perspective to change an ordinary day.
May today be your day of leaving heartprints wherever you go.
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