Adoption Songs and Poems

I know you’ve heard the stories
But they all sound too good to be true
You’ve heard about a place called home
But there doesn’t seem to be one for you
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep
And drift off to a distant dream

Where love takes you in and everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in

And somewhere while you’re sleeping
Someone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days until
They hold you close and say I love you
And like the rain that falls into the sea
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
And this love will never let you go
There is nothing that could ever cause this love to lose its hold

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in it takes you in for good
When love takes you in

Dear Sweet Baby Boy



As a girl I had a common dream, to be a mom someday.

My baby would have eyes of blue and hair the hue of hay.

But now my dreams have been transformed.

New visions fill my head.

Now the tresses that I long to stroke are raven black instead.

And in my dreams those eyes are not so big or blue or round.

Now in my dreams they're almond shaped and colored cocoa brown.

And in my dreams my arms can stretch across enormous seas.

They reach half-way around the world and hold you close to me.

As you grow in your birthmother’s womb, carefully knit together,

you're also growing in my heart, where you will stay forever.

And in my dreams the moment that your birthmother says good-bye,

I'll be right there to comfort you and hold you as you cry.

Our features may not look alike; we're different as can be.

But still I know the Father has created you for me.

And though I've not yet seen your face, or held your tiny hands,

and though we're half a world apart in very different lands,

I'll be right there to get you just as soon as God allows.

But ’til He says the time is right I give to you this vow.

I'll pray for your protection every day on bended knee.

For God to hold you in His arms, until you're here with me.

by Gayle Leubecker

A red thread to China was cast today
From us to a child so far away.
This thread symbolizes an attachment of hearts.
That distance alone can’t keep us apart.


This loving young child we want so much to greet
With love in our hearts before we did meet.
This tiny, thin thread may stretch, tangle or fray
But our love for him grows stronger each day.


Through the test of time it won’t break or sever
He'll be part of us forever and ever.
With oceans between us, the distance is spanned
By a love that is greater than man could have planned.

For God in His mercy loved him and us
And decided our family would be a great plus.

So for now we’ll just love him and pray every day
That God keeps him and loves him for us till we may
travel to China, that land of great past,
to the side of our son, to hold him at last.