“A Mother’s immeasurable love for a child she couldn’t save.”
The headline jumped off the screen. The dateline was Dallas. May 11, 2013. The journalist Steve Hartman wrote:
“Beyond the biological mandate, there’s something about mothering that defies science and borders on the divine — something especially palpable in this mom from Keller, Texas, named Brenda Gorman.”
He tells about Brenda and her husband Gary who decided to adopt a four-year orphan girl, Zia, from the Congo. All was going well until the Agency called with the bad news that Zia had a rare and fatal heart defect. Then they asked Brenda, “Do you still want her?” Continue reading