It's not about a people buying T-shirt.
It's not about promoting a yard sale.
It's not about selling flowers or coffee.
It's not about collecting recycled ink cartridges.
It's not about applying for countless grants.
It's not about raising that fundraising thermometer to see how much money we have left raise.
It's about bringing a Little One home.
{"God sets the solitary in families"....}
Our Little One.
Fatherless no more.
Just saying it makes me ache.
Reminds me of his circumstances.
Longing for him to be home.
As real as that is, it's about more than him.
It's about Him.
It's about His words.
{"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless"....}
It's about His Life broken and poured out on our behalf.
{Our offering, our response...to give our lives because He gave His life for us.}
It's about sharing a visible gospel.
{The deepest and strongest foundation for adoption is located not in the act of humans adopting humans, but in God adopting humans….it is at the heart of the Gospel. ~ John Piper}
Sometimes I lose focus.
I forget what it's all about.
What life ~ the combination of compressed, deluge of moments ~ is about.
Whether it's
adoption
or parenting
or working
or walking
or talking
or living
or breathing....
may it all be about Him.
His words.
His broken-and-poured-out-life.
His gospel message.
Him.
{"I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service"....}
It's not about promoting a yard sale.
It's not about selling flowers or coffee.
It's not about collecting recycled ink cartridges.
It's not about applying for countless grants.
It's not about raising that fundraising thermometer to see how much money we have left raise.
It's about bringing a Little One home.
{"God sets the solitary in families"....}
Our Little One.
Fatherless no more.
Just saying it makes me ache.
Reminds me of his circumstances.
Longing for him to be home.
As real as that is, it's about more than him.
It's about Him.
It's about His words.
{"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless"....}
It's about His Life broken and poured out on our behalf.
{Our offering, our response...to give our lives because He gave His life for us.}
It's about sharing a visible gospel.
{The deepest and strongest foundation for adoption is located not in the act of humans adopting humans, but in God adopting humans….it is at the heart of the Gospel. ~ John Piper}
Sometimes I lose focus.
I forget what it's all about.
What life ~ the combination of compressed, deluge of moments ~ is about.
Whether it's
adoption
or parenting
or working
or walking
or talking
or living
or breathing....
may it all be about Him.
His words.
His broken-and-poured-out-life.
His gospel message.
Him.
{"I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service"....}