After many years of prayers, Hannah and I felt called to the ministry of adoption. (OK, Hannah has always felt called to adoption. It took her a decade to bring me around.) I finally agreed for reasons I’ll cover in depth via another post as well as a dedicated sermon.
For now, the short answer to: “why are you adopting 3 kids when you already have 3 kids?” is: the gospel.
Adoption is how I got into God’s family. Jesus saw fit to irrecoverably adopt me into His eternal family. For me and mine, it only seemed appropriate that we go and do the same.
So, we adopted. Yesterday. 3 kids, which doubled the amount of little people who drink milk out of my fridge.
Yes–it raises myriad questions: What about your biological children? Is there enough of you to go around? Can you hold it all together when a family of 8 needs all of you–all at the same time?
Can I do it?
No.
Thank God for Jesus Christ. We wait to see what He has in store for us next. Maybe it’s a family dairy cow to keep up with the steady milk demand?
