Not only is Adoption Sunday coming up, but this is Adoption Awareness Month. There is a month for everything, isn't there? But this one is, for obvious reasons, so very close to my heart. Aside from partnering with Scott, I believe that being an adoptive parent is the single most important, life changing, and world changing thing that my sovereign God has called me to. What greater way is there to stand up to abortion than to embrace those children whose birthmoms also bravely stood against it? I believe that adoption is the height of being pro-life. Think about it, how has standing outside an abortion building ever done anything? I guess I am assuming way too much. It would be stupid of me to think that God hasn't rescued babies through someone standing outside an abortion clinic with a cross, sign, or the Bible. I am sure he has. But then what? In my humble opinion, I believe adoption is the obvious conclusion to a pro-life heart. This is why I say that adoption is the single most important thing God has called me to do. It is the culmination of all I believe my God to be. He loves orphans. His heart is for the orphan. Adoption is evangelism in it's simplist form. It is a ministry to a birthmom who is reaching out to someone for help, for someone to love her baby as much as she does. As a Christian, I also believe that adoption is a rescue effort. It is saying yes to a baby that could otherwise go to be placed in a home where not only is Christ not preached, but is denounced. Tell me this is not close to the heart of God! Adoption is taking a risk, yes. But it is also a step of faith; it is saying to God "Show up in a great way!" It Gideon's fleece in a modern world.
Adoption has not just changed my life, but it has changed the life of my kids. I don't want to think about where my little JW would be right now had his birthmom not stood up to the culture around her and made the most selfless decision she could ever make. In today's society, she had a choice to make. The choice she made allowed Scott and I to know Big Boy in all his bigness. She looked abortion and death in the eyes and said "You will not have my child!" Then she lovingly placed him in our arms after asking us to love him for the rest of our lives. Humbling, isn't it?
I also believe that adoption hasn't just changed our lives, but it will change the world forever. My family line has forever changed. It is no longer white. Scott and Shannon as we exist through our kids, aren't white anymore. We will reach generations of people that we would not have reached otherwise. Our kids will be friends with people that had we had bio kids we would have never met. I am sure that we will meet and minister to parents of their friends who we may not have ever seen face to face were it not for our kids. Because of this I have no doubt that the adoption of three little babies will change more than I can think or imagine. Scott and I have always carried a torch for the poor in our world. The vast majority of America's poor are African American. We pray that our babies will also carry this vision as well; being that they are African American I think they will reach people that Scott and I could never reach. Praise God for adoption!
This last paragraph will be very short. I never need confirmation that we did the right thing by adopting both babies on the same day. Our money is due to the JW's lawyer by November 16th. I talked with the girl in charge of our account today. With all of our grants, gifts, and a few discounted fees, we will only need to come up with about $2500 out of our own pockets for my sweet sweet Big Boy. God has provided and raised close to $15,000 for us. I didn't think I needed this simple reminder from God that he does indeed own a cattle on a thousand hills. But I have to admit that each time God surprises me with his own faithfulness I realize how frail my faith really is. Our Lord is good; I am thankful that he has chosen to reveal himself to me through adoption.
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