Sometimes those prayers that we give to God take a while
for Him to make real in our lives. He has His good reasons for His timing.
This year (Aug. 2016) I am seeing something come true
that I asked of the Lord over 16 years ago. Longer than that, when I think of
the original request that goes back to February 1979.
When I was holding my baby girl, Sarah, in the maternity
ward, I knew that in the following days I would keep my promise and relinquish
her to adoption. I was unmarried at the time of her birth, and wanted my child
to have the security and love of a loving dad as well as a loving mom.
It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but
somehow I knew God was going to use our story to encourage others. I began to
pray back then, shortly after giving my little girl up in 1979, that one day I
could write or tell our story.
As Sarah went to live with her new mom and dad, God was
very good to me, and a year later sent a sweet man into my life. David and I
married and as the years passed, we had our own 3 beautiful children. Then as
the years inched forward closer and closer to the time my birth daughter Sarah
would be turning 19 I began to pray for our reunion. The age 19 was the age of
majority in our province, and when Sarah and I could legally be reunited.
The reunion eventually took place, 2 years later than I
had first hoped, but the reunion turned out to be far more emotionally painful
that I was prepared for. I was not only reunited with my child, but with the
fact that she was NOT my child. I began to relive my original loss of Sarah.
God is so faithful though. I went through a terrible
valley of depression and loss that lasted a good 2 or 3 years, but my
relationship with God brought me out of it.
It was through that journey of emotional pain and
eventually healing that I discovered the story God wanted me to tell. That was
when I began to pray again that God would use Sarah’s and my relinquishment/reunion
story to encourage others.
And now 16 years later, that true-life account of what
God taught me through the relinquishment of my child will be published this
August 15, 2016, and is called FINDING SARAH—FINDING ME: A BIRTH MOTHER’S STORY.
The main premise of this long-awaited book is found in
Isaiah 49:15,16a
“Can a woman forget the baby at her breast and have no
compassion on the child she has born? Though she may forget, I will not forget
you…see I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”
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| Reunion Day |
Book
Description
Sometimes it is only through giving up our hearts that we learn to trust the Lord.
Adoption. It’s something that touches one in three people today, a word that will conjure different emotions in those people touched by it. A word that might represent the greatest hope…the greatest question…the greatest sacrifice. But most of all, it’s a word that represents God’s immense love for his people.
Join birth mother Christine Lindsay as she shares
the heartaches, hopes, and epiphanies of her journey to reunion with the
daughter she gave up...and to understanding her true identity in Christ along
the way.
Through her story and glimpses into the lives of
other families in the adoption triad, readers will see the beauty of our broken
families, broken hearts, and broken dreams when we entrust them to our loving
God.
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ABOUT CHRISTINE LINDSAY
Christine Lindsay is
the author of multi-award-winning Christian fiction with complex emotional and
psychological truth, who always promises a happy
Christine’s Irish wit
and use of setting as a character is evident in her contemporary and historical
romances Londonderry
Dreaming and Sofi’s
Bridge.
A busy writer and
speaker, Christine, and her husband live on the west coast of Canada. Coming
August 2016 is the release of her non-fiction book Finding
Sarah—Finding Me: A Birthmother’s Story.
Please drop by Christine’s website www.ChristineLindsay.org or follow her on Amazon
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