Just need to vent...

Tuesday night, after my date night with my bestie, Laurie

(we watch the view and text during the showing)

I decide since nothing else good on TV I am going to 

watch America's Got Talent.

Not my favorite show but I am a closet Howard Stern admirer.

(I know that is against my norm, but we all have our vices.)

I am not completely paying attention as I am also reading.

I put my book aside when I hear a young man

explain that his family abandoned him when at 18 he came

out to tell his family that he was gay.

This makes me so so angry.

I don't understand, I don't understand how when we

hold these precious babies in our arms when they are born

and we vow then and there to love them unconditionally

that anything can change that.

My full attention goes to the program now.

I watch as he cries about how lonely his life has been and

only through his singing does he find any solace.

 It is not what we, as parents are called to do, we are

not called to abandon our children when things don't go the

way we plan. The Big Man gives them to us as a gift.

All he asks of us is to love them.

That is it, to temporarily be their parent until the day they

are called back to Him.

I continue to watch as this boy belts out the most beautiful

Operatic song, and I now am so so sad for those who have

shut him out of their lives. Children are all so multifaceted.

They can be broken in an instant and we, as parents, control

the stick which can break them.

I love love love my gypsy baby. I love

both my babies and cannot think of one thing they could

do that would change that.

What a loss for this child but mostly, what a loss for his parents.

Remember, we have been chosen to care and love our babies.

It is the most important job we have. No matter what life

throws them, no matter what they throw back at us,

it is unconditional love that they should find when they

walk through the door of our home, when they

are planted in that spot in our hearts.

I love you, gypsy baby!