Later she gave those earrings to my mother, and when I was a little girl I would peer inside Mother’s dark green jewelry box and think about my grandmother wearing those earrings as a small child. When Louella first arrived at her new home, she was wearing beautiful gold-pierced earrings. My grandmother, Louella, had been adopted, so I knew that it was possible to love someone else’s child just as much as if they had been born to you. Since I was a teenager I believed that someday I would adopt. Would You put something in front of Greg that will help him see Your will concerning this?” I literally wept and prayed, “God, you either have to change my heart or my husband’s heart. When our youngest child turned 18, my husband, Greg, thought that we could relax, enjoy our grandchildren, and just “grow old together.” But in my heart I knew that we weren’t complete … I wanted to adopt.
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