November is National Adoption Month. hard to believe it's almost over and we're heading into the final month of 2016! each year November brings with it more information on a subject that is obviously close to my heart~ adoption! so i get to read lots of true and difficult and important and heartwarming thoughts about this topic i feel deeply about. it is a mixed bag, that's for sure.
last week i stumbled upon a radio program about this incredibly brave couple who adopted eight siblings from Sierra Leone. yep, eight! not a typo. gulp....adopting eight at once is not generally something i'd ever recommend. neither would they, i can confidently say! unless of course, God asks you to! the part of the story that gripped me most was how the father battled with God when he realized this was the direction God wanted them to go. much like Jonah in the Bible, he pretty much wanted to run and hide. can you blame him??
later that evening i listened to the program online in full (it runs in three parts, this link starts at the 2nd of three, but all three are available), and it beautifully highlights this couple's journey of marital challenges and then later their "turn everything upside down" decision to take in these kids in a selfless act of obedience and love. it is real and it is lovely. i believe God always asks that we be open to doing hard things, to loving sacrificially, to walking a path faithfully that might look very different than we ever expected it to look, to loving the vulnerable and fatherless, to care for the hurting ones around us. this isn't just another adoption story. it's really more of a "yes" story. again, i'm not suggesting adoption is for everyone because i really believe it is not! still, there is always work to be done all over this giant globe we call home. endless ways and countless people that need our care, our love, our life-changing hope. so consider checking it out to be inspired, especially during the upcoming season of giving.
Mike and Hayley Jones have written their story in a book called At Any Cost, and i plan on getting my hands on it soon...
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