Saturday, November 22, 2014

National Adoption Day

As today is national adoption day, I thought I'd talk about how adoption has affected our lives. I think that before you decide to adopt kids or are personally involved in foster care or adoption, people have a very warm and fuzzy feeling about adoption. How wonderful to offer your home and your life to someone who needs a family!

And from my experience, adoption is an amazing thing! It is how God choose to grow my family! And I wouldn't go back for anything!

But adoption is hard! I know there are many other people who have adopted and had a much more difficult time than we have had, but we have still had obstacles to overcome. And just when I think things are going well and life will be kinda normal something happens and we are reminded again of the many things our kids have to face on an everyday basis. There are days when I wish we had them from birth so I would better understand why they feel certain ways or why they respond so harshly to some things. Or to prevent then from the things that cause hurt and anger for them.

Which brings me to Ephesians 1:4-6. The Bible tells us that we were adopted into his family. You can't choose your biological kids, and although its kind of a weird feeling, you do get to shop for your adopted kids. All that to say, God chose us because he wanted us.

There is no greater picture of what Jesus did for us than the physical adoption of kids into the family. Before we met our kids we were able to view their CPS file ( all 1100 pages of it) in order to determine if we thought we could handle whatever issues they had and help them work through them. We knew where their weaknesses were, we knew their struggles and imperfections and chose them anyways. God knows everything about us and yet chooses us to be in his family. He isn't blindly choosing us or stuck with us because we are biological family (although I love Seth and wouldn't get him back, he was added to our family somewhat blindly) but he chose us according to his pleasure. He is pleased to have us be a part of his family, his loved ones, the recipients of the inheritance he has prepared for his lineage. He desires to have us represent his family name and bear the resemblance of his character in our lives. That is powerful!

So to all of you who have been physically adopted or spiritually adopted, take today to celebrate that you are wanted and cherished and loved!

Happy National Adoption Day!

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