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Sandy
is sitting on her sofa in the dark with tears in
her
eyes. She should be so happy because her
daughter Janet,
and only child, is getting
married in two day to a wonderful
man that she
loves. But Sandy has a secret she should have
told her daughter years ago. She had tried
many time but
something would conveniently
happen to prevent her from
telling her
daughter the secret.
Sandy thought back all
those many years ago when Janet
was born.
Janet was the natural child of Sandy’s younger
sister Shelly and her boyfriend Dan. Shelly
was only 16
when Janet was born. Shelly and
Dan weren’t ready to
be parents and really
didn’t want Janet. On that last day
Sandy saw
them alive, she had talked to them and
convinced them they should do the best thing
for the baby.
So they had left the baby with
Sandy and her husband
Mark and was going to get
married. About midnight a
policeman woke Sandy
up with the bad news. Dan had lost
control of
his car and collided head on with an
eighteen-
wheeler. Both teens had died at the
scene.
Neither family objected to Sandy
and Mark adopting Janet.
They loved her as
their own daughter. Then after Sandy’s
baby boy
was still born, when Janet was three, the doctor
told Sandy she couldn’t have another child.
From then on
Janet was really spoiled by the
couple as their only child.
Now Sandy
knows she has to tell Janet who her birth
parents were but she is so afraid this secret
will damage
their relationship forever. She
regrets not telling this to her
daughter much
sooner.
Sandy hears the front door open and
Janet comes into the
room as she turns on the
lights saying “ Mother, why are
you sitting in
the dark?” Sandy motions for her daughter to
be
seated next to her on the sofa. Then Sandy pours
out the
secret with tears in her eyes as her
daughter listens. When
Sandy had finished she
is so surprised to see a smile on
her
daughter’s face as she grabbed her mother
in a big embrace
saying “ I know, Nana told me
this when I was twelve. She
showed me pictures
of Shelly and Dan. She also told me that
she
thought God had meant for you to be my mother
and
for Daddy to be my dad, since Shelly and
Dan wouldn’t
have ever give me the care and
love the two of you did.
Nana said Shelly was
my mother by birth but you are my
'Mother By
Love.' I knew you would tell me some day
when
the time was right for you!”
Sandy
was so overjoyed with her daughter’s reaction to
her
secret. The next few day was full of the
wedding festivities.
After the wedding was over
she thought about how Nana
said she was
destined by God to be Janet’s “Mother By
Love.”
She knew her daughter realized just how much
love
she would always have for the little baby
that was left with
her so many years
ago.
Copyright @ 2003 M. Doris Fuller
This page is dedicated to
a special group of Mothers. They
are not birth
mothers but they step in and give loving
care
to children when it isn’t possible for the birth
mothers to care for them. I call them “ Mothers By Love.”
I think these mothers are some of God’s
angels.
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