How many times we have been asked that question. I know many have even questioned our mental health. Others imply we have some sort of martyr thing going. That could not be farther from the truth. Then there is the implication we are being the opposite, selfish and unfair to our other children.
My pastor's wife and others in recent months have given a deeper understanding of Psalm 37:4, "4Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. " Rather than as a promise we will get our heart's desires, it is that as we delight in Him, He will make His desires our desires. That has certainly been the case for us with adoption. He has laid on our hearts a deep desire to love another child who needs us.
And still, the doubts of others can make you doubt yourself. That was the case for me until, while attending a conference with my 15 year old daughter, God gave me the following quote by Frederick Buechner: " Neither the hairshirt not the soft berth will do. Vocation: The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
Wow. I needed that.
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