Adoption...

Adoption...

Two of my children have different genes than me.  They are adopted...I have a hard time thinking of them as adopted....they were supposed to be a part of our family  no matter how they came...that was God's plan...

Our youngest daughter was given to us right out of the hospital...our youngest son was in foster care for 19 months before he joined our family...
He entered as number four...

We knew snippets about their birth parents and as time went on, we promised as they turned 18 we would pursue through the state a connection, which we did and further asked a friend to pursue it further...with some success...

Now, as DNA tests are more readily available, both have been able to locate birth parents...our daughter, the history and researcher found much information and was able to connect a lot of dots and come up so much information on history, Facebook, etc...she is in contact with her birth father and other relatives...then she helped her brother find the information on his family as well...

I don't know where this will lead,  but am so excited that they finally have some closure as well as a new chapter to write in their lives...I fully support this new adventure...it has been both scary and enlightening for each what they do with the information...it has given each history that is unique, connections that lead to new countries, new destinations and ancestry that is purely theirs...and I think a measure of peace as well...but, bottom line, they have been and are loved for who they are no matter what...they are heirs just as our biological children...Each one was entrusted to us as a blessing...
Adoption...what we experience as sons and daughters of our Creator...he loved and knew us before time...what a gift...we are heirs of the most high...as we come into his family by the redemption of His Son...as a parent, I desire what is best for my children-all of them...I want joy, contentment, growth, peace, fulfillment for each...just as God desires for each of us...thank YOU that you have revealed new paths for my children...thank YOU that adopt us as sons  and daughters....that you love us so very much and desire the very best for us...that you have special paths for each...

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Romans 8:15-16

But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Galatians 4:4-7

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment —to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
Ephesians 1:3-10

The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. PSALM 126: 3