building anew

Adoption isn't about fame, or some skewed view of glory. It isn't about doing something new and different. It isn't about our wants and desires, or about making us whole as a family or individuals. It isn't about us wanting a baby or a child, and God saying 'well here you go! Now you can be happy.'

It isn't about bringing a perfect child into an imperfect family, or bringing a perfect child into a perfect family. It's not about bringing in a broken child into a perfect family either, to be their rescuer... if so, no one would ever qualify because no one is perfect.

It's about bringing a broken soul into a broken family... to walk in it together, along side each other. And she is broken... and we are broken... there is joy and there is ugly. There is peace and there is the storm... but God doesn't build anew from finished work. No, He takes the broken pieces, and refines and rebuilds. So he has taken her, and he has taken us all, together, to build something new.