Meeting biological mother

[Margies3]

Most of you know already that we have two sons who are both adopted. They are not biological brothers.

We've always told our boys that when they are 18, we will give them whatever information they want in order for them to be able to make contact with their birth parents. Keith already sees his biological grandma and a biological half-brother once a year. Always has. His grandma is actually the one who had custody of him before we adopted him. So he's easy.

Justin has not seen or heard from his biological family since he was 11 months old. We got him at age 3 1/2. He was in foster care until we got him.

So this week, his biological mom called my mother and my uncle to try to find out a way to contact Justin. Walt and I talked it over and decided now was the time IF Justin still wanted to make the contact. We talked with him tonight and he really does.

On Sunday his biological grandmother is coming down to this area and Justin will get to meet her for the first time since he was 3 months old. In the meantime, I will be making a phone call to his bio mom to set up a time for us to take him up to meet her and her new husband, as well as at least 2 of his biological half-brothers. He has one full sister, but I am not sure that he will get to meet her right away.

We had to explain to him tonight that while his biological mom has come a long ways and is doing much better now than she was at the time that she lost custody of him, his biological father has not changed. In fact, he is sitting in prison right now for attempted murder. He threw battery acid all over his step-mother when she refused to loan him money.

I'm sharing all of this with you so that I can ask you this - please pray for Justin for the next couple of weeks. In addition to getting ready to move out and go away to college, he's also going to have this emotional rollercoaster to ride. He'll be ok. He's a good kid and very strong. But it won't be easy. He'll need your prayers. Thanks!