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Mother By Love © by M. Doris Fuller

Sandy is sitting on her sofa in the dark with tears in her eyes. She should be so happy because her daughter Janet, and only child, is getting married in two day to a wonderful man that she loves. But Sandy has a secret she should have told her daughter years ago. She had tried many time but something would conveniently happen to prevent her from telling her daughter the secret.

Sandy thought back all those many years ago when Janet was born. Janet was the natural child of Sandy’s younger sister Shelly and her boyfriend Dan. Shelly was only 16 when Janet was born and wasn’t married to Dan. They weren’t ready to be parents and really didn’t want Janet.

On that last day Sandy saw them alive she had talked to them and convinced them they should do the best thing for the baby. So they had left the baby with Sandy and her husband Mark and was going to get married. At midnight a policeman woke Sandy up with the bad news. Dan had lost control of his car and collided head on with an eighteen-wheeler. Both teens had died at the scene.

Neither family objected to Sandy and Mark adopting Janet. They had loved her as their own daughter. After Sandy’s baby boy was still born, when Janet was three, the doctor told Sandy she couldn’t have another child. From that time Janet was really spoiled by the couple as their only child.

Now Sandy knows she has to tell Janet who her birth parents were, but she is so afraid this secret will damage their relationship forever. She regrets not telling this to her daughter much sooner.

Sandy hears the front door open. Janet comes into the room and as she turns on the lights saying “ Mother, why are you sitting in the dark?” Sandy motions for her daughter to be seated next to her on the sofa. Then Sandy pours out the secret with tears in her eyes as her daughter listens. When Sandy had finished she is so surprised to see a smile on her daughter’s face. Janet grabbed her mother in a big embrace saying “ I know, Nana told me this when I was twelve. She showed me pictures of Shelly and Dan. She also told me that she thought God had meant for you to be my mother and for Daddy to be my dad, since Shelly and Dan wouldn’t have ever give me the care and love the two of you did. Nana said Shelly was my mother by birth but you are my ‘Mother By Love.’ I knew you would tell me someday when the time was right for you!”

Shelly was so overjoyed with her daughter’s reaction to her secret. The next few day was full of the wedding festivities. After the wedding was over she thought about how Nana said she was destined by God to be Janet’s “Mother By Love.” She knew her daughter realized just how much love she would always have for the little baby girl that was left with her so many years ago.

This is dedicated to a special group of Mothers. They are not the birth mothers, but they step in and give loving care to children when that isn’t possible for the birth mothers to do. I call them “ Mothers By Love.” I think these mothers are some of God’s angels.

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