Children Are A Blessing

I listened to a radio show on adoption today. I am not ever very good about putting my thoughts into words, but they said something that I feel and could never put into words. It made so much sense. I have written a lot before about reactions that I get when people hear we are adopting and how many times I have let others reactions scare me out of adoption. They said you have to overcome the “worldly” view of children and take on a Biblical view. A worldly view perceives children as a burden, too costly. Biblically they are a blessing from God. That is SO true. All the fears people, including myself, have about adoption are based on the worldly view. They are afraid of the cost and the risk. Those were fears of mine. I could never explain the desire I had to adopt. It definitely comes from God. There is no such thing as a child with no risks, adoptive or birth. Nothing guarantees our own birth children won’t get sick or follow a disappointing path in life. We do the best we can and I believe you are always taking a risk with marriage, birth children and adoption. I am not sure how and when the attitude about children turned into what it is now. I will always have in my mind from now on when I fear the unknown in adoption that I have to stop thinking in the worldly view we are trained to apply to life and remember children are a blessing no matter how they find their way into our lives.