For the Next Generation

Recently, my fiance found out he was the father of a six month old baby girl. Long story short, the mother of the child broke up with him not long after she found out she was pregnant and cut all ties with him leaving him in the dark. It only recently came to light because the child was being adopted and they were trying to track him down to make sure all the legal bases were covered in him signing over the child for adoption. We met the beautiful girl yesterday, my fiance and I along with his family. She's beautiful and doing quite well under the care of her soon to be adoptive parents. However, that's not to say it is all roses. My fiance is struggling with the sense of him abandoning his child by signing away his rights. We've tried to assure him that abandoning her is the last thing it could be, but it's been very hard for him. So I pray.

Dear Jesus

Thank you for this beautiful baby girl who you have brought into the world to bless and be blessed. Let us always remember she is a gift from you to her families, because she will have several. Help her to grow up healthy, happy, and loved. And as I ask your blessing on her, I also ask your peace for her father who is dealing with tumultuous emotions right now as he makes a decision that will change the course of his life and that of this baby girl. Help him to hold to you and those around him so that he's not facing everything alone. You did not call for us to travel alone, but together that we may bear each others burdens. These things I ask for in your name knowing you are gracious and true to grant them.

I love you, Lord.

As it stands, the adoptive family wants to keep ties with my fiance and his family so that the baby girl grows up knowing him and being loved by him, so that is a blessing. I'm praying it helps to ease the anxiousness my fiance feels over signing away his rights. I'm excited to see where this could lead. It means I start off my married life with a child already in the picture. Some might be threatened by this. I am not. I look forward to helping raise a baby with relish. It will add a facet to mine and my fiance's life.