Why are we adopting?

What a relief it has been to finally share the news of the rescue mission God is leading us on. It’s been hard keeping that caged up while we took the first couple of major steps. So, now that you know we are pursuing an adoption, you may be asking, WHY? Why would we adopt a child when we can obviously have biological children of our own?

Well, first there is the biblical precedent and imperative to care for the orphan. God the Father has adopted us as orphans and made us sons and heirs despite our sinfulness. Moreover, as James 1:27 declares, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

Last year, Steve wrote a couple of blog articles on orphans and adoption, connecting our spiritual adoption to the way we are called to care for orphans. Check out those posts…

• Our Adoption as Sons
• The Cry of the Orphan

Then there is our personal story of how the Lord has brought us to this journey of adoption…

Before we even got married, Steve and I talked about the possibility of bringing a child into our family by adoption.  Through most of the early years of our marriage, this was just a very far-off, obscure idea. We began to consider adoption more seriously during the heartache of waiting for Jeremiah.  Even after we were blessed with our beautiful son, we knew that adoption was definitely in our future.

In September of 2009, we were elated to find out that I was pregnant with our second child.  Just a few short weeks later, we mourned the loss of our baby, which may have been the greatest heartache either of us have ever experienced in our lives.  It was in our mourning for our baby that God made it very clear to us that we were not to wait any longer and we began the long process of researching international adoption.  Our God is sovereign and His plan has no mistakes.  While He holds our precious baby in His arms in heaven, God has created a place in our family for a hurting child without a family.