My thoughts on this day....

Tomorrow is Micah's first birthday! Hard to believe, isn't it??

I know that tomorrow will be a day to celebrate and rejoice at the miracle of Micah's birth! But, today my thoughts are elsewhere...in another country, in fact. Today I have been overwhelmed with thoughts of Micah's birthmom...wondering....
When did she go into labor? What was her labor like?
When did she make her way into Guatemala City...and who brought her there?
At what point did she make the decision to place him into another family...with the hopes that he would have a better life?
How did she learn of Hannah's Hope?
Is she thinking of him today? Will tomorrow be emotional for her?

....and a million more questions. Questions that we may never know the answer to.

But what we do know is this: One year ago tomorrow, a healthy beautiful baby boy was born to a woman that loved him and wanted him to have opportunities that she could not provide. We are blessed to know this, because she took the time to put it in a short letter to Micah.

I have no idea what it was like for Micah's birthmom a year ago today, tomorrow and the next...but what I do know is that our family is forever grateful to this woman for choosing life for her baby...our baby.

I have no idea what emotions she is having right now, a year later...but when she thinks of Micah, I pray that God gives her a peace that passes understanding and an assurance that Micah is quite possibly the most loved little boy in the world!!