#3

Have you seen the billboards about town? I am sure you have. They are simple yet so powerful. It is a black and white photo of the most beautiful black face you have ever seen. At the top it says "Black and Unwanted." Heartbreaking. That sums it up for me. It is heartbreaking. At the bottom is www.toomanyaborted.com. I have been meaning to go to the site for a while. I figured it was probably much like www.blackgenocide.org. And it is. But something about it is much more powerful. This group, started by Ryan Bomberger, advocates not only adoption as the option, but they also are bold enough to say that transracial adoption is okay. Ryan himself was adopted by a white couple at the age of 6 weeks. As a product of rape, his birthmom loved him enough to give him life, then to go on and give him to a family who loved Christ and therefore loved him. This was in 1971. I'd like to shake the hands of his mom and dad someday. Anyhow, there was a quote that I felt deserved a post of it's own.

We are a nation still so uncomfortable with the hue of our skin that we miss out on the ultimate act of racial reconciliation–loving a child of another race simply because they deserve to be loved.

Of course he is speaking directly to those who are still on the fence about transracial adoption. (It blows my mind to think that there are actually still people out there who believe that abortion or kinship care is better than transracial adoption.) But it made me also think about my friends downtown who are laying down their lives for a group of young people who, if it weren't for the Wilkins, the Medlins, the Keoruglians (or however the heck that one is spelled), the Aitkens, Figgins, etc...would have no idea what it means to be loved. Let us continue to take bold stands for Christ, to look status quo in the eye and say "ENOUGH", and to love those who have been deemed as unlovable and unwanted. Let us redeem the poor for Christ in order that ashes may be transformed into beauty, life from death, and wealth from scraps of nothingness. Children and babies deserve more.