The picture is from the People Magazine article: https://people.com/nurses-find-love-adopt-baby-they-cared-for-nicu-my-extraordinary-family-8621307
God gives a command to multiply and so having biological children is a gift and also adoption is a gift to a child in need of a forever family.
This beautiful story below demonstrates God’s heart for adoption and the beautiful gift the biological mother gave, whether she naturally chose life or sadly ever contemplated abortion yet ultimately chose life, by loving her baby girl by giving her life.
The story is about Drew and Taylor who met while working at the hospital and ended up fostering and adopting a baby, named Ella, through Taylor and later Drew becoming Ella’s nurses. The story is here: https://people.com/nurses-find-love-adopt-baby-they-cared-for-nicu-my-extraordinary-family-8621307
This story is powerful. It speaks to the gift of adoption, the power, as my mother would say, of saying yes to God. When I think of the babies in utero and outside the womb and sometimes in the NICU I think of how oftentimes babies are killed due to the child’s condition. It is so important to see that we are loved for who we are as an image bearer of God and not seen as worthy or not worthy of life due to our conditions. Isn’t it our conditions that makes us stronger because often people see people outside the womb as, “overcoming their condition because they can rise above it” and recognizing “it is not who they are, and it does not define their worth as someone is not their disability” yet this contrary argument is used to justify abortion and it is tragic. We are not our conditions. Anencephaly is a condition it is not the child, contrary to how many in the medical field think this way.
The following is a powerful quote from the article regarding what Ella’s adoptive mother says as she was her NICU nurse before fostering and adopting her. Taylor said, “She required so much support — blood transfusions, all these things,’ Taylor recalls. ‘I remember the neonatologist being like, ‘I don’t know if she’s going to make it today. I don’t know what else we can do for her at this point.’ “
Ella’s nurse and now adoptive mother never gave up on her.
The article states, ‘”Although Ella faced a ‘lot of risk factors’ by being born so early, Taylor tells PEOPLE she ‘enjoyed taking care of her that day.”‘
And sadly, the conversation for the OB and MFM world oftentimes looks different regarding how they view the child in utero and sometimes outside the womb all because of the babies’ health conditions.
Isn’t it sad that the field where babies should be protected are often murdered in utero. These are each people made in God’s Image and they are killed all because of their conditions.
It is amazing that this couple fostered and adopted their baby! Taylor, the adoptive mom, and the adoptive dad, Drew, simply cared for Ella as her NICU nurses and she ended up becoming their daughter. Sometimes, as in Katie Davis’ story who wrote the book, “Kisses from Katie”, we may see that when we just love the person in front of us, God ends up giving us our child through the journey. Rachel Mary quote, “In order for the gift of adoption to occur abortion must not happen.”
‘“I don’t know how it happened,’ Taylor says. ‘I feel like it’s a total God thing, that he’s kind of like, ‘This is your path with nursing, this is your place, and here’s your husband, and then here’s your daughter that you’ve been praying for.”‘
Sometimes when we run in the lane, we are called to by Jesus sometimes we will meet our future family there such as our husband and children.
Saying yes to adoption and biological children is saying yes to Jesus.
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