Posted on 11/25/2016 9:35:21 AM PST by Kaslin
We’ve all seen pictures of the sweet hospital scenes where dads hold their newborn babies for the first time. But that’s not how it happened for Cecil Stokes of Huntersville, North Carolina. His bouncing baby boy was eight-years-old the first time he got to hold him.
Cecil writes, directs, and produces entertainment—commercials, TV, documentaries, and movies. He’s had a good life, but there was one unfulfilled dream: he wanted to be a dad.
He’d always known that he wanted to adopt rather than have biological children. He says, “There’s a lot of crazy in my family and I didn’t want to risk passing it on. I didn’t feel the need when there are children who need homes.”
In November of 2014, he’d dated one of the most perfect women he’d ever met, but it didn’t work out. The next week at church a 14-year-old boy got up and talked about how his parents had abandoned him and how he now had a new home. For four weeks in a row, nudges about adopting arrived either in a book Cecil was reading or at church or through a friend.
With no wife in sight, Cecil decided to move ahead as a single adoptive dad. He’d never felt such peace about a decision. By January, he’d started a seven-week class with the Department of Social Services. He switched to the Children’s Home Society to get his license to be a foster parent, the step required before he could adopt.
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The good Lord can use love in multiple ways. The bible says that “true religion” includes to look after widows and orphans in their distress. He just did something for an orphan.
He sure did.
Now that’s a true Thanksgiving story.
What a great article. Wife and I are thinking of adopting. ConservaTeen is thinking of adopting when he’s older.
We have two children adopted from China
Adoption is a love-multiplier.
I adopted.
It has been a true blessing.
I got her directly from the birth canal, still wet and goopy!
Birth mom is a druggie, who we still know. Her other kids have a sad, sad life ahead of them.
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