Marci is interested in theological issues relating to adoption. She is both an adopted child and a birthmother.
Click on the link below to see an article, published in Call To Worship, with a healing service to use with a birthmother after she has relinquished her child for adoption.
A Service for Healing After Relinquishing a Child for Adoption
To read a sermon about Marci’s experience with adoption, click here.
Hey, Marci:
I went to marciglass.com to check out your semons. I saw you had a link to adoptions (this page).
I ran across this article that seemed pretty neat to me (although you are the one with first hand experience to know how “valid” it is).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/238276
Hope you are doing well. It’s been too long since I’ve seen you (in real life, instead of cyber life).
Mike
Thanks Mike. I hadn’t seen that article. I think it is pretty accurate. I would add that birth mothers probably don’t get as much respect as the author is calling for because we remain hidden, often in shame filled silence. People think birth mothers fit some sort of sterotype, as she described in that Newsweek article. In reality, birth mothers are just like everyone else you meet on the street, but hiding in plain sight.
The more people are safe to share their stories, the better things will be.
It has been too long! Hopefully we’ll make it back to NM before too long!
Peace.
I agree 100%
I feel like adoption is slowly being de-valued because of in-vitro fertilization. People can order up 6 kids at once, and then act shocked when some of them have health problems. All under the guise of making their own, when in reality, there are already so many in the making who need wonderful homes. My brother and his wife adopted their daughter 23 years ago in an open adoption procedure, and the biological family has been involved as much as they’ve been comfortable. Her birth mother attended her wedding last year, and a speech was given in her honor, for having the fortitude to give her to people who could and would provide love and care her entire life. It takes a lot of love to put a child up for adoption. Kudos to those mothers.