Our Story: How We Came to Adoption, I

Posted on November 15, 2007 
Filed Under Focus on the Family Broadcast, Life, Marriage, Parenting, Personal, Social Concern

A story I’ve told before, about the beginnings of our adoption journey,  came up in that FamilyLife Today interview on Monday. Here’s a brief portion of that discussion:

Bob (Lepine): When do you remember adoption coming on the radar screen in your marriage for the first time?

John: Yeah, yeah, it was – it actually started before the word “adoption” came up. We had five children, and I was loading them up to go out to the car to go to church, and I stood at the front door, and I held it open, and it’s not like we have this orderly family. Normally, it’s chaos, but I’m counting. In my mind, I’m just kind of going one, two – and people that don’t have four or five kids don’t always understand that but sometimes we just have to kind of count and make sure we have them all.

Bob: We get them all, yeah.

John: And, one, okay five, and I paused and I looked down at the ground, and I looked up again, and I thought, “Is that all? Just five? It feels like somebody’s missing.” And I couldn’t really explain it, but I told my wife about that.

There’s a lot more to our story, and I love sharing it with folks.

Do you have an adoption story to tell? Let me know – submit a comment for us to read.

Comments

2 Responses to “Our Story: How We Came to Adoption, I”

  1. Steve Morrison on November 26th, 2007 2:11 pm

    Dear Mr. John Fuller,

    I love listening to you and Dr. Dobson on the radio whenever I’m on the road to work. I work as a Senior Project Engineer at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA working on the future generation GPS III satellite system.
    I have an adoption story I’d like to share with you. I was adopted from Korea at the age of 14, and it has made a tremendous difference in my life. I would like to send you a tribute I wrote and read at my father’s (John Morrison) funeral on March 2006 at the Village Seven Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs. My mother (Margaret) lives in Colorado Springs with my two sisters’ families around. I thank God each day for my great parents and the family they have been to me. They have inspired me to establish an organization Mission to Promote Adoption in Korea (MPAK) to bring about positive changes in adoption culture in Korea where adoption is viewed negatively. By God’s grace we have made a tremendous impact in the adoption culture in Korea where people are willing to be more transparent about their adoption experiences rather than keeping them secret. Since 2000, MPAK has enabled so many more children to have homes of their own. I would like to send you my adoption story (the tribute I read at my Dad’s funeral) in a MS Word file if you are interested.

    Steve Morrison
    310-336-5618
    mpakusa@gmail.com
    http://www.mpak.com

  2. Admin on November 26th, 2007 9:27 pm

    Thanks for reading, and for the offer, Steve. I’d be pleased to see your tribute.

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