You should never give up hope, even if it doesn’t work and fails time after time. My wife and I had been trying to have a baby for a long time, but it was as if we were not allowed to. We prayed to many people, but we had a son when we had almost lost faith that we could have a child of our own and were thinking of adopting from an orphanage. We lived with the idea of a baby and were so excited to raise him! The little guy was growing up fast and getting older, and so when he was five and we were sitting with him in the garage – I was fixing the car and he was drawing that very car – he asked:
– Daddy, do you know where I came from?
Listening to our son was always fascinating with his childlike wild imagination.
– Where did he come from?
– From beautiful places, where everything was white and sunny, and then I suddenly fell to earth and ended up at your and Mom’s place.
– So you claim to be an angel? – I laughed.
– Or a former Santa Claus elf. Everything is white because of the snow,” answered the child. – Did you ask Santa Claus to bring me under the tree?
– Of course we did.
We did, didn’t we? Every year, like crazy people, we wrote wishes on a piece of paper and burned them at midnight over a glass of champagne.
– So you’ve collected gifts for kids like you in the past? – I was curious to hear.
– No,” my son said with a very offended look, “adult elves are responsible for such things, and little ones like me just wait to be wrapped in a pretty box and sent to you.
– But we had you in March…
– Delayed mail,” my son laughed, jumping up from his chair and running over to me to show me his drawing.
It’s not worth giving up if only for this kind of talk. Every couple sues for their child, whether born to their mother or adopted. They are all sent to us by someone higher up.
