To love someone that much

A rockstar once said...

"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered. God is with the mother who has infected her child with a virus that will take both their lives. God is under the rubble, in the cries we hear during wartime. God, my friends, is with the poor. And God is with us if we are with them.” - Bono

As a television editor, I have a hard time taking celebrities seriously, but every once in a while, one of them says something that leaves a lasting impression on me.

This is one of those moments. Are we with them?

I had a reality check today. I got updated photos of Isaac. In a couple of them, Isaac is sitting with his mom. He looks just like her, and it broke my heart, because I knew she was giving him away, because she knew to stay in Africa would be a death sentence for Isaac, because of his back. But the smile on her face, is so full of love.

She's not selfishly giving him away, because she wants her own life. She is giving him to me, because she loves him that much, that she puts herself second. They say in adoption that it is all about the child. It's not about the adoptive parents, or the birth parents, it's about what's best for the child.

Today I have looked upon the face, of the most unselfish woman. A woman who loves her son so much, that she would give him to me. I can NOT begin to explain the gratitude, and heart break I feel right now.

I can only pray that I become even a fraction of the mother she is.