Saving grace - by Elaine
This post is about indescribable grace, both the song and the concept, but it is also about the saving grace of music.
This post is about indescribable grace, both the song and the concept, but it is also about the saving grace of music.
April 17 will mark the one-year anniversary of our son’s arrival. His crazy, serendipitous, and unexpected crash- landing. Luckily everyone survived, although there have been moments (that sometimes lasted days) when I wondered if I would make it. Garrett was just past two when he skidded into our lives, a physically beautiful child – angelic beauty – but his soul was deeply buried beneath five different foster homes and two re-tries with the birth mother in the previous eight months.
When 2008 began my husband and I launched into our what we thought was our journey to adopt an infant from Ethiopia. We hired an adoption practitioner, started filling out the endless reams of paper work and we were one visit away from finishing our home study – thinking that approximately 12 months later (March of 2009) we would be in Ethiopia picking up our child!! - when our adoption practitioner sent us a note she received from a private adoption agency about a 27 month old bi-racial little boy who had just come into their care. That was March 5. On April 17 we signed the adoption papers, and Garrett was now our son. We had high expectations, unrealistically high expectations.
We really didn’t understand how wounded he was from those eight months. We didn’t expect the days of tantrums, irrational behaviour, the lashing out at us, the fear. But you know what the saving grace was………music. He came to us with literally dozens of CD’s that his birth mother played for him. Without fail, regardless of how horrible the day might have been, at naptime and bedtime we would put on his music, crawl into bed beside him and he would snuggle up and fall asleep in our arms.
Now the Praise Baby Sleepy Time Lullabies is our favourite. Indescribable is my favourite song because the joy, the grace, the happiness of our family is as Indescribable our Father in Heaven.
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