National Adoption Month
This is actually effort number two to write about National Adoption Month. My first effort was a satire about why people shouldn't adopt which J., my editor-in-chief, deemed perhaps too biting for my blog. He likened it to inviting a group of friends into my living room and then slicing them open with a scalpel. It's not a pretty image. Consequently, you won't be reading my biting satire as that is not the way I like to treat my guests.
The impetus to the writing of the satire was born out of frustration. Frustration over why more people don't choose to adopt. Frustration over others thinking that J. and I must be some sort of super-parents in order to parent the children we do. Frustration that money is so often the reason cited for not adopting... the adoption fees are seen as too expensive, raising another child is too expensive, and the number one reason I hear most: We can't afford to send one more child to college, as if those four years represent the be-all and end-all of life.
I am frustrated with complacency. I am frustrated with fear. I am frustrated with Christians allowing Satan to win this battle.
And children wait. They wait for a family whom they can belong to. A family that will give them permanency. And it is more than just for the growing up years. They wait for a mother and father who will be there after they are grown... to be at their wedding, to be grandparents to their children, to be a shoulder to cry on, and a place to come home to. Children without families have no hope for the future.
Look at the faces. Just go and look.
The impetus to the writing of the satire was born out of frustration. Frustration over why more people don't choose to adopt. Frustration over others thinking that J. and I must be some sort of super-parents in order to parent the children we do. Frustration that money is so often the reason cited for not adopting... the adoption fees are seen as too expensive, raising another child is too expensive, and the number one reason I hear most: We can't afford to send one more child to college, as if those four years represent the be-all and end-all of life.
I am frustrated with complacency. I am frustrated with fear. I am frustrated with Christians allowing Satan to win this battle.
And children wait. They wait for a family whom they can belong to. A family that will give them permanency. And it is more than just for the growing up years. They wait for a mother and father who will be there after they are grown... to be at their wedding, to be grandparents to their children, to be a shoulder to cry on, and a place to come home to. Children without families have no hope for the future.
Look at the faces. Just go and look.
Comments
I am right there with you. It is a huge frustration when I talk to people about children or allowing the Lord to bless them with more children. My common response is, "I am ready to be done with children so I can move on with my life" or "We simply can't afford to put one more in college". BTW, if college prices keep rising the way they are, no one will be able to afford to put ANY child in college! When will we realize that children are the future for sharing the love of Jesus to a world desperately in need of Him. Parenting is a life long endeavor that is only enhanced with each new child, either by birth or adoption. There, I joined your cause:)
Kim Crawford
It's easy to get angry when there are so many children growing up without parents. It isn't right!
When you are able, come visit www.wearegraftedin.com. We'd love to have you a part of things there--there are lots of preadoptive and adoptive mommies on the forum who would love to encourage you and be encouraged by you. :)
Kelly
blessings
I'm so sorry your heart is calling you to adopt yet you hit roadblock after roadblock. It sounds trite, and I don't mean it to come across that way, but keep praying. God is bigger than governments and agencies.
I also want to add that this post wasn't directed at you or anyone who desires to adopt but for some reason or another is unable to. It was directed at those who see children more as financial drain rather than blessing.
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