Our God is so amazing! Last night, we had the wonderful opportunity to have dessert with an amazing family who has walked this journey before us. Mutual friends put us in contact with Travis and Kim, an amazing couple who has three biological children, and last year they adopted their adorable two year old, Taj, from Ethiopia.
We had a wonderful evening sharing stories and talking about adoption experiences, and it got me thinking about how God is creating a culture of adoption in our community. Twenty or thirty years ago, adoption was a taboo subject, and parents would hide the fact that their child was adopted for fear that they wouldn't "fit in". Today, God has opened the heart of the church towards accepting the abandoned as our own and celebrating our similarities as those creating in the image of Christ.
We have been blessed by those who are traveling the journey of adoption and have walked a few steps before us. We pray that God continues to transform His church by placing the spirit of adoption in the hearts of His people.
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." - James 1:27
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