(Our family at this time had increased as our older daughter Linda had married and Susan was also married and so we had two sons-in-‘love’. At this time Linda was busy doing her Doctorate (Chemical Engineering) and Susan was at the Cornerstone Institute majoring in Psychology.)
The journey to this point
had had many frustrations and delays.
Six months had passed since we had been given the details of Susan’s
grandparents. Susan’s biological family
have since shared with us their journey from the time that Susan was conceived
until they received the phone call from the agency but that is their story to
tell.
The social worker had not
given Grandpa Charles too many facts about Susan - he wanted to know so much more, but they
wanted her mommy to be the first to hear.
He gave them her address and so they wrote a letter to her giving her
information about Susan.
Charles phoned her. Because of the time difference between South
Africa and America it was five in the morning when Vicki's phone rang.
Vicki was anxious when her
husband told her that her father was on the phone as the last time he had
phoned so early in the morning had been to tell her that her mother had been
killed in a motor car accident. Her
husband said to her that she really needed to take this call. He knew that she had put a baby up for adoption
when she was much younger.
The line was a bit crackly
and all Vicki heard was the word ‘ baby’ and thought her father was telling her
that he and his new wife were going to have a baby! One cannot imagine how she must have felt
when she really understood what he was telling her. Vicki had always prayed that somehow, one day,
she would just be able to find out that her baby was okay.
The letter that they sent to
America just never got there. We didn’t
know this. Susan especially was feeling
anxious and had to work through the possibility that maybe her mother didn’t
want to meet her and had to come to the place again of confirmation in her
heart that her identity was in Christ and she would be the same person whether
she met her or not.
We phoned the adoption
society to find out whether they had heard anything. They phoned America and found out that the
letter had never arrived there. They then decided that Susan could go ahead and
send an email directly to her mother.
In a previous article there was a picture of Susan in a sari, this same
photo she attached to her email. What
were the feelings that went through her mother’s mind as she saw a picture of
her daughter? We also went ahead and phoned her grandparents to introduce
ourselves to them.
It was September. Her mother made arrangements to fly to South
Africa. Another miracle in God’s big
plan was that Vicki didn’t have to fly alone.
Her step-sister (Grandpa Charles had married her mother) had many months
before planned to fly to South Africa in September for a holiday. They were able to fly together – a wonderful
support at this emotional time. This
step-sister was also the first person Vicki had ever told that she thought she
was pregnant. (It wasn’t her step-sister at that time). Grandpa Charles had already planned to drive
down to Cape Town to pick up the sister before he knew that his daughter would
be coming as well. We were therefore
blessed not only to meet her mother but other members of her biological family.
We fell in love with them
all and knew from that moment that our two families would become a unique blended
family.
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