Coming Home (ePub)

My writing career began during my graduate studies at Loyola University's Institute of Pastoral Studies in Chicago. I was introduced to the Hebrew writing tradition "midrash". The translation of midrash varies from "to investigate", "to study", "searching out", and "a story". Essentially, a midrash is a story about a story. A midrash tells a story that gives more depth to the static and ageless transcripts of the broader Torah, Tripitaka, Qur'an, Sutras, Old and New Testaments, and Vedas. The midrash could also be a re-telling with contemporary characters, situations and settings. The first midrash I wrote was about the story of Jesus in the desert; alone, hungry, thirsty, and tired. He was about to begin a ministry that would change the world like nothing else in human history. My midrash attempted to answer the question; Why would he choose to go to a desert, a place of suffering and death to prepare? As a young graduate student living on a vibrant, dynamic urban campus his choice mystified me.





The midrash you are about to read is the re-telling of our daughter's adoption story. In the early morning hours of September 18, 2003 she was left on a bridge in Shaoyang City in Hunan Province, China. She was naked except for the blue blanket that covered her. She was less than a day old. The unanswered questions are infinite. Who left her? Did anyone see? Did her mother give birth nearby? Was she the first child of her birth parents? Why? What could possibly lead a mother to abandon her child? Who was involved in the decision or the leaving, itself?





For my husband and I, there was only one question to answer - what would we tell our daughter?





What we do know is that she was left to be found. The bridge is in a city with a population of 7 million. Beginning early in the morning the bridge is crowded with pedestrians. There is a school nearby. One story of the abandoned babies in China is that once

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