My family has always known I’ve wanted to adopt.  Not everyone wants to adopt or is called to adopt.  A couple of years ago, I wanted to see how my sister felt about the idea of me adopting a child because at that time she had a couple of biological children of her own.  (She has a couple more now and we are blessed!)  I used the subject of people who don’t want to adopt to open the discussion.  I told her that several of my friends had told me that they would consider adoption, but that their husbands weren’t sure they could love a child who wasn’t theirs.  I was so frightened that she might agree with that statement.  To my great relief though, my sister looked shocked!  Then she taught me a good lesson…

She exclaimed, “It’s a good thing for them that God didn’t feel that way!”

“What?”  I asked.

“The Bible says that we were adopted by God.  It’s a good thing God didn’t think he couldn’t love an adopted child.”

Indeed it does…

I love this quote from Katherine Heigl:

Not everyone is called to adopt and that is ok!  Not everyone desires to adopt and that is ok!  Just like someone wanting to be a dentist or gynecologist is unimaginable to me, for some people adoption is unimaginable.  That’s ok!  Now that I’m looking at the very real possibility of a cross-cultural adoption, I want to learn to purposely celebrate the things that make us all unique as well as the things that we all share just by virtue of being human.  This post isn’t intended to make anyone feel judged.  It’s just that the lesson my sister taught me stuck with me and this is a blog about an adoption journey, so I shared it.

Maybe you don’t have much family… Maybe your marriage is falling apart… Maybe you long for kids, but you are uncomfortable with alternative ways of getting them… Maybe life is going smoothly right now.  No matter what, you have the ability to have God as a real and perfect Father who loves you and is always with you and gives good gifts to His children and it’s all thanks to Jesus.  If He’s your father, then you have a world-wide family in the world-wide church.  We are (or can be) all adopted!

To help me adopt my baby, please go to gofundme.com/babyforBethany and you can read about my Puzzle Piece Fundraiser by clicking here.