Eli: Dad, can you play that song?
Me: Going to have to be a bit more specific buddy.
Eli: The dying for a thousand years song.
Me: Yeah bud.
We love that song in our family. I first heard the song, not on the soundtrack for the teenage sci-fi drama about those adorable vampires and werewolves...but as a part of a Welcome Home Adoption special. I'm a fan of Christina Perri...yeah, i said it, so what; she has a great voice...and as I watched the special and the images of families formed through adoption, tears of joy rolled down my cheeks. What joy, what words, what a story and picture it paints of the reality of so many families created through adoption. Of the longing of the parents to give of themselves and the longing of the children to know they are beautiful and made perfectly! It encapsulates so much of the emotion Mandy and I felt as we waited on that couch for the boys to make their way downstairs to meet these strangers; these people that their loving Foster Parents had been showing them pictures of and calling them 'Mom' and 'Dad'. So when I played that song on repeat so much, the kids asked us why we loved it so much.
We could barely get through it as we explained and listened to the song again. The longing described and fulfilled in song is something that I know is possessed by all of us, not just those touched by adoption. And while we continue to teach our kids the reality of our Father and King being the true fulfillment of that longing; I'm grateful that my 5 year old recognizes, appreciates, and feels the depth of love that went into creating our family. He truly loves this song, we'll listen to it and he'll sing it the rest of the day. This lil man understands the power that can flow from music.
So as I made the kids breakfast, listening to some of my music...let me tell you how much i loved hearing Eli ask out of the blue to hear this song.
"It's about becoming a family, Dad. It's about loving and adoption."
Yeah bud.
"Why does she say she is dying?"
It's a metaphor bud. She is describing how badly she was waiting and how much love she had to share and how she believes that the one she loves is the one she was always meant to love and now that they are together they can love each other.
"Oh...
Dad, I like this song."
Me too bud.
Me: Going to have to be a bit more specific buddy.
Eli: The dying for a thousand years song.
Me: Yeah bud.
We love that song in our family. I first heard the song, not on the soundtrack for the teenage sci-fi drama about those adorable vampires and werewolves...but as a part of a Welcome Home Adoption special. I'm a fan of Christina Perri...yeah, i said it, so what; she has a great voice...and as I watched the special and the images of families formed through adoption, tears of joy rolled down my cheeks. What joy, what words, what a story and picture it paints of the reality of so many families created through adoption. Of the longing of the parents to give of themselves and the longing of the children to know they are beautiful and made perfectly! It encapsulates so much of the emotion Mandy and I felt as we waited on that couch for the boys to make their way downstairs to meet these strangers; these people that their loving Foster Parents had been showing them pictures of and calling them 'Mom' and 'Dad'. So when I played that song on repeat so much, the kids asked us why we loved it so much.
We could barely get through it as we explained and listened to the song again. The longing described and fulfilled in song is something that I know is possessed by all of us, not just those touched by adoption. And while we continue to teach our kids the reality of our Father and King being the true fulfillment of that longing; I'm grateful that my 5 year old recognizes, appreciates, and feels the depth of love that went into creating our family. He truly loves this song, we'll listen to it and he'll sing it the rest of the day. This lil man understands the power that can flow from music.
So as I made the kids breakfast, listening to some of my music...let me tell you how much i loved hearing Eli ask out of the blue to hear this song.
"It's about becoming a family, Dad. It's about loving and adoption."
Yeah bud.
"Why does she say she is dying?"
It's a metaphor bud. She is describing how badly she was waiting and how much love she had to share and how she believes that the one she loves is the one she was always meant to love and now that they are together they can love each other."Oh...
Dad, I like this song."
Me too bud.