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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 765664" data-attributes="member: 18958">In my faith our motivations can come from beyond the self we feel ourselves to be. What I am saying here is that we can be motivated to take on responsibilities and make attachments from a force that is beyond our choosing and consciously knowing why. My choosing and bringing home my own son (he's adopted) I could not have stopped if I had at my side all the armies of the world. I knew he was mine. Nothing would have stopped me. Nothing did. Soon after I brought him home I learned his birth parents were dying of AIDS. I had known his birth parents used drugs. I had not known their health status. I had fo face my son could die. I ask now, when I have suffered so much more than I could have ever imagined, why would G-d want me to suffer so?&nbsp; My Rabbi told me, that maybe it was not about you, what you would gain from being a parent, but what you could give.&nbsp; Maybe it was about service. It is possible for good people to parent children because it is the right thing to do. Our children needed us. We gave them a shot. Gave them a chance. Let's pray.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 765664, member: 18958"] In my faith our motivations can come from beyond the self we feel ourselves to be. What I am saying here is that we can be motivated to take on responsibilities and make attachments from a force that is beyond our choosing and consciously knowing why. My choosing and bringing home my own son (he's adopted) I could not have stopped if I had at my side all the armies of the world. I knew he was mine. Nothing would have stopped me. Nothing did. Soon after I brought him home I learned his birth parents were dying of AIDS. I had known his birth parents used drugs. I had not known their health status. I had fo face my son could die. I ask now, when I have suffered so much more than I could have ever imagined, why would G-d want me to suffer so? My Rabbi told me, that maybe it was not about you, what you would gain from being a parent, but what you could give. Maybe it was about service. It is possible for good people to parent children because it is the right thing to do. Our children needed us. We gave them a shot. Gave them a chance. Let's pray. [/QUOTE]

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