Humbled to Receive

I have had it in my mind for the last 14 days that I want to write this blog post and have just now sat down to make it happen! There were some wonderful things shared at our Gladney Orientation, as I shared in the last post, but there was one thing that really stuck out to me and that's what I want to share today.

One segment of our workshop was hearing from birth moms who were making an adoption plan. They were beautiful, bright and funny girls in their 20's. They seemed very kind and extremely level-headed. They came from strong families who supported them. These young women opened my eyes to a different kind of birth mother - one of the best kinds of birth mother. These sweet girls were making a very, very painful decision to give life to a child who they have every natural right to keep and instead surrender their rights and give a precious gift to someone longing for children.

It hit me that weekend that God would be answering our prayers for a child with a woman who is selflessly (and many times painfully) giving her baby to our care. I realized that for us to be given the rights of parents, another parent would have to voluntarily surrender her and/or his rights to be a parent. Sound familiar?

"...but to all who did receive Him, He gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12.

Jesus surrendered the rights He had as God's Son- to be treated with dignity, to receive glory, to destroy His enemies, to rescue Himself off the cross and from betrayers, continuous and unbroken fellowship with His Father, to have a painless and easy life all so that instead I could receive the rights of a child of God. So that now I have the dignity of being called God's child, I have the eternal inheritance of the Son which will never spoil or fade, I have unbroken relationship with the Father and I have life that can never be taken away. Jesus gave up His sonship rights so I could be given those rights instead.

I am deeply humbled to be given the rights of a parent and look forward to meeting the woman and/or man who are selflessly surrendering their rights.

Adoption is bursting with the good news of the gospel, it's there if you look for it!

~L&L