ADOPTION: LUCY

Thanks to all of you who prayed for Lucy’s surgery.  I checked with Reed & Amy and it is Number 5 for the cleft palate. She had one for her lip while still in China. The doctor was pleased with the surgery and thought she would do a lot better.  Lucy was born with basically no  cleft palate so has been unable to talk understandably.  She now has 2 small holes and he feels she will do so much better.  One thing: she sure hasn’t allowed this to keep her down.  She is a spitfire!  🙂

ADOPTION: LUCY

I feel like someone who really has nothing to say, but has everything to say.  Know what I mean?  Jo and I have had two daughters naturally.  We are now at the age where having another child (adoption) is not much of an option.  But if we were younger… My brother, Garry, and his wife adopted Lia in 2003 after (I believe) a two year wait.   Besides Lucy, we also have another couple who have adopted two Chinese girls. I have friends who just adopted a boy from Africa.  This blogger can sure tell you about foster parenting and adoption.  In fact, he is running a regular post about what they learned and are learning.  Here is one and you can look for the others. Another blogger and her husband have taken in a “house guest” for however long it takes.

I admire those who adopt-whether here in the states or foreign country.  It takes a special couple to do that- to take on someone from a unique background, someone who has not been raised (most likely) with the same values as them-and to make them one of their own. Same foods. Same house. Same rules. Same love.  Same benefits.  Reed & Amy.  Chad & Terri.  Tracy & Julie. Jason & Andrea. Harry & Susan.  They all have my utmost respect.

ADOPTION: GOD

Yeah, I know…we don’t adopt God.  He adopts us.  Romans 8:15.  Galatians 4:5. Ephesians 1:5.  Being adopted by God is woven into the very fabric of Scripture.   “The term adoption is filled with the ideas of love, grace, compassion, and intimate relationship. It is the action by which a husband and wife decide to take a boy or girl who is not their physical offspring into their family as their own child. When that action is taken by the proper legal means, the adopted child attains all the rights and privileges of a member of the family.” (MacArthur commentary on Romans-p.435)

It goes without saying how important that is to the follower of Christ.  We know we have been adopted into His family and received all rights and privileges associated with that adoption.   I don’t know about you, but that makes my heart sing!

Adoption.  Such a cool word. Such a way cool act.  Has an adoption affected your life in any way?  How so?  I would love to hear your thoughts.