Unconditional Love<br/><br/>
A middle-aged couple shared their experience of adoption and educating their children at the Evangelization Concert on October 28. They were Morris and Anissa, and they have agreed to disclose their names.<br/><br/>
A few years after they had gotten married, they decided to adopt orphans because they didn’t have any children of their own. Anissa said, “Although I didn’t have any children of my own, I hoped other children who did not have parents can also grow up in the warm environment of a family. Meanwhile, my sister’s marriage was in jeopardy and her two young sons immediately lost their warm family lives.” Morris added, “Our own parents were against us from adopting Anissa’s nieces. However ultimately, we still ended up fostering the two little children.”<br/><br/>
Anissa continued, “When we decided to immigrate to Canada, we officially adopted my two nieces so they could immigrate with us. Maybe it was fate. Soon after we came to Canada, my sister discovered she had cancer so at least she was not too worried about her children’s future. Before she passed away, she had the fortune of becoming a Catholic. We hope she now rests in peace.”<br/><br/>
Morris told us, “We didn’t have any experience giving birth and bringing up children, the only thing we could do was to treat our children like friends, and up to now our relationship had been a harmonic one.” Anissa added, “A priest once reminded me: you should become a servant to these two children. His words were very insightful to me.”