Media Monday: Just the Same

We came across this great poem on our friend's blog that adopted almost a year ago. It was in the April 2011 Ensign (a magazine put out by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with uplifting articles about the gospel). We loved it and read it again last night in our copy of the Ensign.

Here it is -

Just the Same
By: Diana Lynn Lacey

Sometimes—

God sends rain

Straight from the sky

To nourish the young flower

and it grows.

Sometimes—

God sends rain from the sky

To the mountaintops,

Then over hills and through valleys

Until it reaches the flower

and it grows, just the same.

Sometimes—

God sends a child

Straight from His realm

Into a mother’s arms

and love grows.

Sometimes—

God sends a child

From heaven to another’s arms,

Then over hills and through valleys

Until he reaches the arms of his mother

and love grows, just the same.

Our thoughts: We love how simple and tender this poem is. Just as water sometimes winds around the mountains in order to nourish the flower, sometimes children go through different arms to get where they need to be. The end result is the same, love grows and happiness abounds...for all parties involved. We are excited for the day when we are able to meet the birth parents that will be an answer to our prayers for Caden to be a big brother and for us to be able to raise another child in our family.