A beautiful adoption song is "From God's Arms, To My Arms, To Yours," by Michael McLean. It is based on a poem that a birthmother sent him. The full text of the song is at this site along with comments from others about the song.
The chorus is as follows:
And maybe, you could tell your baby,
When you love him so, that he's been loved before,
By someone, who delivered your son,
From God's arms, to my arms, to yours.
Marie Osmond sings the song on the CD from the 2002 Winter Games. You can hear a clip from the Amazon.com webpage (click track #9), although it doesn't appear that they have new CDs in stock. Fortunately, the CDs are available used through Amazon.com for a few dollars.
The song is also available on a CD on which Michael McLean sings his own songs found here. You can also hear a clip from the page (#11). (I personally think the song is better sung by a woman, since it is from the perspective of a birth mom.)
The version we have is on the CD that accompanies the book Hold On, the Light Will Come: And Other Lessons My Songs Have Taught Me.
While searching around, I found that it is also available on the CD Adoption...the Songs you Love. This is the same version of the song we got with the book mentioned above (sung by Linsey Brinkerhoff).
Warning . . . you will cry . . .
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I just had to post this comment. Linsey is my wife, so of course I'm a huge fan. But this song has some personal meaning in my own life. I am adopted. This song is a favorite of my mom's. So, you can imagine the emotional connection this song has for all of us. Thank you for bringing the recording to your reader’s attention.
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