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1 " At the sight of my newly found family packed into my living room as if it were the most natural thing in the world, people I had only known a few months were gathered in my home on Christmas Eve, from four states and made up four generations. "
― Wendy Batchelder , Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree
2 " Could that test be the answer to some of my lifelong questions about who I was? Could I really get the answer about my ethnicity or where I came from? Would I find people I was related to? "
3 " It is because of this process, drawing near to God through prayer and through reading His Word, that I finally began to understand and accept that God loved me, for me. "
4 " I was only six weeks pregnant but already found myself thinking about my birth mother and what it was like for her, knowing she was carrying a baby and was going to give her away—give me away. I couldn’t imagine what that must have felt like. I already felt so connected to my baby. For the first time, I found myself wondering about her. "
5 " To this day I will never forget the exact words they used, but for the sake of staying on the G-rated side of things, let’s just paraphrase: no one must like me, especially my parents, since they “got rid of me. "
6 " Like the tapestry, God has intentionally placed each of us in our exact spot to make His world just how he needs it to be. "
7 " I think the unsaid truth about adoption for most is that it wasn’t the first choice. It’s hard for me to type these words and put them on this page because I know they hurt. "
8 " A letter from my grandmother. A woman I had never thought about. I couldn’t get any of my thoughts to make sense . . . no questions would come together. I felt paralyzed. "
9 " I’d found my birth family. "
