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  One year ago this month I received the results from my Ancestry DNA test. Within 24 hours I had found my birth mother. I'm not going to lie, I was in shock. I was part of a closed adoption through Catholic Charities. I was adopted in a state, Minnesota, which does not have open records. I had attempted to get access to my OBC but my birth mother would have had to filed paperwork to allow me to see it. I tried to go through Catholic Charities but all I could afford at the time was to pay them...

The quote “God danced the day you were born” is something Pamela believes to be true for everyone that comes into this world. However, Pamela sees how this sort of quote/statement can be used as a silencer statement for an adoptees pain and truth of how many of us come into the world. Pamela believes, that yes God danced the day she was born, but he also wept tears with her when she lost her mother. This is a critical dynamic to Pamela’s journey and she believes it to be true to her fellow adoptees, or anyone that loses their mother at the beginning of life.

I was told I was adopted at 5 years old. The kids in the neighborhood were teasing me about it, so I asked my adoptive mom what it meant. From that minute on I was screwed up. Confused to say the least. I was told I was chosen. My Brother picked me out. Not only was that not comforting, but scary as hell for a child.

  The message Being Adopted Means “It takes a lot of courage to grow up and become who you really are" - e.e. cummings was inspired by Suzan Pleva because she believes it reaches so many adoptees, who have never had the chance to be who they really are. They’ve had to stay strong, and fight through all the wrongs done to them, to be still standing, and fighting through to be who they really are.   SUZAN’S ADOPTION STORY AND JOURNEY   My adoptive parents were extremely abusive, and my adoptive 'mother' was narcissistic. It was a frightening childhood riddled...

As I came to know the Lord, I started to see how the system of adoption was a counterfeit to God's divine adoption through Christ. So often, these two are deemed parallels, and adoptive parents are seen as saviors. However, this is idolatry and it places a huge burden on the adoptee.