I BELIEVE IN YOU
I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN YOU
While lost on the way home from a church Halloween roller skating party, this song played on the car radio. The line in the song that says "just give me something that I can hold on to..." caught Jonathan's ear.
This song "In This Life" meant a lot to me during this time. The video makes no sense for my purpose here, but the words do.
Let the sun stop burning.
Let them tell me love's not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart
the only dream that mattered had come true:
In this life I was loved by you."
Early next spring, on March 7, 1997, I received a call from Jon's case worker that he was coming back to our school system and would be living with the same foster family that he had left before the adoption placement. On Christmas Day in 1997 at 4:00 p.m., Jon came to live with his new "forever family". On March 8, 1999 Jon was legally adopted. Today, March 8, Jon has been my son for eight years.
Jon is my only. I chose not to have children when I was very young because I didn't want to bring children into this problem-filled world. The journey with Jon has been touching, raw, painful, extremely tough and rewarding. I can with all honesty and sincerity say that he enriches my life. I know his journey will hold many levels of discovery. . . his life has so many layers. I am pleased and proud to be his mother. As a freshman at Northeastern University's Engineering School he received all A's except for one A- first semester. Jon is a hard-working and honest student.
This picture was taken at Spain tonight.
Being a kid today is full of pitfalls. And for those kids that have parents who fall completely short of their responsibilities as parents, life is so demanding of resilience. I knew when I met Jon that if any kid could make it against all of the odds that were stacked against him - Jon could.
Love,
Mom
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Dedicated to my son
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A-ah...let's hear Amanda Marshall in another version of
"I Believe in You"
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More than 100,000 children in the
Hundreds of thousands of children around the world are living in orphanages
or substitute care and need homes.
Are you ready to parent?
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Labels: abuse, adoption, Amazing Grace, Brothers and Sisters, DCYF, family, Foster children, ilovemylife, John, Jon, Jonathan, love isn’t cheap, Mother, neglect, never give up, resilience, Rhode Island, Son
2 Comments:
You are truly blessed to have such a wonderful son, ilovemylife!
And the fact that he has the same ideals as you and shares the same passion, makes you a great mother indeed. :)
KC
Hello KC,
Thank you for your kindness.
Yes, this is a destiny that I would have never imagined for my path - but with an openness to life and what it presents - you find yourself in a whole other chapter of your life that brings a whole mix of emotions and struggles.
As I say, I am all the more richer for this unexpected "calling" to step up and take it for all that it can be.
Living "closed up" never was something that was even a close call for me.
Living bold, out loud and with as much integrity as I humanly can - it's been a great life.
It just gets better and better.
I love life with a passion.
"See" you later.
ilovemylife
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