I'm staying with friends in Los Angeles. Yesterday morning they woke up to a call that said their baby was ready if they wanted her.
My friends have been on a waiting list for three years to adopt a child. Two days ago, a young mother dropped her two day old baby girl off at a fire station. The city of LA has a law saying that mothers who don't want to raise their newborns can let their babies go at a police station or fire department. This was the baby my friends were being offered.
They said yes.
They went to bed the night before without a thought of a new born. They woke up to being instant parents.
My friends went to the hospital to pick her up and came home three hours later with their baby daughter. They seemed stunned by the circumstances. We took turns holding her. We were amazed at her presence.
It made me think about how we never know what's going to happen in the next moment. We wake up thinking we know what's up for us. But life has a mind of its own.
I was thinking about how most of the significant things that have happened to me have been unplanned. They were things that happened to me. Suddenly there they were. I'd be stunned for a moment. And then I'd feel this new thing get absorbed by my life.
This experience with my friends makes me feel a little looser about my expectations for how the day will turn out. It feels good having some openness for the unexpected things that are going to happen in their own way and time.
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Wow! Takes on a whole new meaning to, "What are your plans for tomorrow?", doesn't it! Congratulations to your friends and their new little family!
As an adopted child myself I applaud your friends and know that this child will be one of the blessed ones.
I think she's a lucky kid. And they're lucky parents.
i agree with the idea of this post. i have found that the best things have happened to me when i least expected them. so i try to live in the wonder of life's possibilities.
This is so true!! Every time I wonder what my year-ago (or 6 month-ago, sometimes 2 day-ago - never mind 5 year-ago) self would think of what has happened and all the unexpected twists and turns of it all - I laugh out loud. You NEVER know.
Wow I got goosebumps reading that. Congratulations to your friends. And I do hope the woman who dropped the baby off is doing OK.
Although it's a completely different set of circumstances, when I found out my son had cancer, our lives turned upside down overnight, and since then I have never felt that you can really plan life..things just happen.
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