"Think of Me"

For the past 2 days, I have been going into a house and looking at and holding a little boy. He is less than a week old and he is just an amazingly cute little guy. He is quite lucky to be alive considering his mother did not choose to get pregnant. This choice was forced upon her and yet she choose to go through with her pregnancy and give up her first son for adoption. She is only a teenager and knew she could not care for him nor did she have the resources to even try, so she did the loving thing, and is giving him a hope and a future.
Culturally, she could have ended his life without guilt or shame. Yet, she gave him life. Many girls around the world choose to have "fun" and are careless, get pregnant and abort their babies. They had choices and ways to prevent it and yet choose the easy and immoral way out by choosing death for their child. But this young girl, she chose life for her son. She gave him a chance and can sleep easier without the added trauma of murder to her conscience. May God pour His blessings over this young woman. When forced into this situation, she chose love.
So he arrived the other day, after hours, and I got to meet him on his second day of life. We had a social worker fill out an admission form and that is when I noticed that this little guy did not even have a name. So sad, and yet I know that he does have a name to God. He was knit together and God has a family for him. God knew that his mother would not be able to care for him, but God has a mother who is waiting and aching for a baby to hold in her arms. My heart aches for the girls of Lesotho who are being forced into these situations. My heart breaks for the tiny babies who come through our gates without the love and care of a mother. But my heart also hopes because I will get to see some of these babies in the arms of their chosen mothers. Mothers who will wait years and years until they can bring their child home.
In my reflective state of mind, I listened to the song, "Think of Me" by Lisa Chan a few times today. Here are just a few of the lines in the song that are moving...


"I have a name you can know it, it's been awhile since anybody asked..."
"Think of me, let me live in your mind..."
"Keep loving me, while others play blind..."
"Show true religion, cause words don't relieve, your actions they heal me, show that you believe..."
"Think of me..."


To mothers who chose life and mother's who bring those lives into their homes through adoption!