Adoption as Redemption

"People use the same excuses as to why they can't adopt as those who are aborting their children. We are all asking, 'How will this affect my time?' and 'How will this affect my money?'... The church can tell people they should not abort their children because it's morally wrong, but then we have to be the solution and say, 'I will take your baby.' -Derek Loux"

I ran across this quote on Orphan Justice Center's Facebook page. It really caught my eye and tugged at my heart strings. Then, as I looked through OJC's web page, I came across this:

"My friends, adoption is redemption. It's costly, exhausting, expensive, and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him. And when He redeems us, we can't even really appreciate or comprehend it, just like [our children] will never comprehend or fully appreciate what is about to happen to [them]...but [they] will live in the fruit of it...I will never expect [them] to understand all of this or even to thank me. I just want to watch [them] live in the benefits of my love and experience the joys of being in my family. This is how our heavenly "Papa" feels towards us." -Derek Loux

Wow, adoption as redemption! I have, before now, not been able to put this into words, but this hit me right in my adoption heart! This is the call for adoption God has placed on our heart, on our lives.

Adopting older children who have had a life and a past, who have hurts and losses that are not our fault, is extremely challenging. It has been the most challenging, most frustrating, most aggravating experience of our lives. It has also been, without any doubt, the most rewarding. When we began to see God's healing and redemption in the lives of our children, we know in that moment it has been worth it.

We will adopt again. We know God is not finished with us yet. We know he has more children to bring healing and redemption to through us. We know He will continue to use us in our present children's lives, and in our future children. We know there are more children out there that He wants to bring hope, life, and a future to, and He will use us to do it.

I am ready, Father God. Bring them on!