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| Why Adoption |
| Why adopt?......"Dont you have 4 children already???" "Are you crazy?" Well, let me start first by saying......"No, we're not crazy!" It has been amusing hearing the different responses from different people. We are very content as a family of 6 but feel that God is leading us to open up our hearts and our home to a "little someone" who needs a home, love, and security. We have been truly blessed and are being led to share those blessings with another in need.. The OT has many scriptures that show God’s concern and compassion for orphans. Adoption is the most loving and permanent way to care for these little ones. Psalm 68:5-6a says about God, “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families...” " We are called by God to look after widows and orphans in their time of distress." (James 1:27) When we adopt we demonstrate love to the watching world. We can show love, not in word, but in action. Adoption is expensive! It costs a lot of money! It is inconvenient! Plus, it lasts a lifetime! Why would we do this? Very simple: “We love because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19). I am reminded of a story I once read on the web believed to be told by "Famous Amos" (The cookie guy) It goes something like this..... "Why adopt?" I guess for us, we feel that it is what we have been called to do. We are being led to share what God has blessed our family with and yet I know in my heart that we will end up being the ones blessed most of all, by the presence of this precious little life that God has entrusted to us. |
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| Amos says that he was once walking on the beach and saw the shadow of a man picking things up from the beach and throwing them into the ocean. As he got closer, he noticed the man was saving the starfish that had been washed ashore by the low tide. The man was throwing the starfish back into the sea one by one. There were hundreds of starfish surrounding Amos and the man, and looking up the coast there were infinite more starfish on the shore.
Amos asked the man, "What are you doing?" "Helping the starfish," he responded. "But there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of starfish that have been washed ashore along the coastline. You can't really believe that by throwing back a few hundred starfish in the ocean, that you're really going to make a substantial difference, do you?" The man turned to Amos and said nothing. He then picked up another starfish and hurled it into the sea as far as he could. He then looked Amos in the eye and said, "Made a difference to that one…" |