The power of words and the power of an experience are both unique and bring about many different emotions and experiences. As an adoptive mom of two beautiful children, I can look back on our family journey and remember the feelings of great joy, sadness, uneasiness, anticipation, excitement, insecurity and most of all the happiest times of my life. Adoption was an experience that I never dreamed of or thought about as I was thinking ahead to what my life would hold. Like many young women, I had my whole life planned out in my head and felt confident that I KNEW what my life would hold.

However, the VERY best part of my life found me!! All too often as we go through experiences we wonder, “Why, is this happening to me?” Well, NOW I know exactly why our adoption experience happened the way it did and why our children found us. It was as if our hearts had always been connected and there was no beginning and no end to our love.

As a newly adoptive mom, I was asked if I thought I could love my son more if I had given birth to him. I remember pausing for a minute to gather my composure and responded saying, “I am not sure how you love someone more than you love them?” To this day, I often think about this question and I KNOW without a doubt my love for my son is boundless. I am grateful that our family was given the greatest blessing of all – the chance to love our children. Their love found us and has blessed us beyond measure.

A friend recently sent me a link to an article written by an adoptive mom and as I read it, I felt as though I had written the article. I was amazed how many feelings returned about my own adoption journey and how I was thinking, “That was me – How did she know?”  I do know her too!

This article, “Dear Mom of an Adopted Child” confirms the feelings and experiences of an adoptive mom and gives hope and inspiration to those moms that will travel the adoption road. I share this article with those that have traveled the road and to those just beginning or in the middle of the journey to give you hope and to know you are not alone.

The GREATEST LOVE has come to me through adoption and I know without a doubt our journey was meant to be. There is no greater achievement than the love of your children and the boundless love and joy they bring each day to our lives.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-lynn-harris/dear-mom-of-an-adopted-child_b_7267898.html