I feel like it is fitting that our daughter turns 10 months old on Orphan Sunday. She is now an orphan no more and it makes this day more poignant to have her in our arms. We didn't seek to adopt to fulfill some great scriptural calling to defend the orphans (though it is a GREAT calling). We simply wanted to be parents and experience the joy of raising a child. We wanted to follow God's leading as to how that would look and God lead us to adopt from Ethiopia. HOWEVER, ignorant as we were when we began our journey, God has opened our eyes. HE DID call us to defend the orphan (which is a commandment that God gives over and over again in scripture to ALL of us), He just had another way of leading us to that. Now I'm not saying that it's God's will for everyone to adopt to save the orphans, and if that's the only reason you want to adopt...please, re-evaluate your motifs. But, it's clear that God does want us to defend the widow and the orphan, so I ask; how is that fulfilled in your life? For us, God used our desire to become parents to turn this
(first picture we saw of Aerin)
into this.
-amory
