I was really proud of Megan when she started this blog. She has made a habit of reading other peoples blogs over the past year, and finally decided to start one of her own. She has asked me a few times to write something on here, and figured that I would take the time to do just that today.
I am so appreciative of the people who are following our blog, and reading up on our adoption process. This journey for us, has been one of the most encouraging, uplifting, God-honoring things that we have been through as a couple in our four and a half years of marriage. I never knew what God had in store for us when we attended the "Adopted for Life Conference" at Southern Seminary last Spring. However, it was at this conference that I was introduced to "The Doctrine of Adoption." God gradually revealed to me, not only had he called Megan and I to adopt, but he had called us to educate others, especially others Christians, to pray about adoption as well.
Scripture is clear that we all have a call to care for the Orphan. James (James 1:27) tells us that caring for Widows and Orphans is what "Pure and Undefiled religion looks like." It's hard to deny such a bold claim, especially to be made by the Half brother of Jesus, who had seen his own father Joseph treat Jesus as his own child.
I don't know what everyone's calling by God to care for the Orphans of this world looks like, but I do know what it looks like for Megan and I. This is the primary reason that we feel called to adopt.
Granted, we are human, and we are excited about starting a family, however, our adoption is not as much about starting our family as it is, fulling God's will in our lives.So in and through our adoption we desire it to be an event that is centered and fixated on our relationship with God. We don't desire to "super spritualize" what we are doing through adopting, but we also don't people to assume why we have come to the point of wanting to adopt.
Man, this blog writing deal is a lot harder than I thought. It has taken me a while to muster out this much, and I don't even feel that I have scratched the surface of what I wanted to express. I will have to leave it here and come back later. Thanks for being interested enough in what God is doing in our lives to read a little bit about it! Daniel
