A Christmas Prayer of Parents Who Are Adopting
Sunday, December 14, 2008
"I can hardly wait for Christmas," she said eagerly over the phone. I was talking with one of my coaching clients who is in the process of adopting from Kazakhstan.
"I find myself imagining her stocking hanging by the fireplace. What joy it will be to have her and hold her!" Her voice went on describing the anticipated joys of parenting her adopted daughter and most of all, sharing her very first Christmas.
My heart beat excitedly with hers. This summer she and her husband will hopefully travel halfway across the world to meet their little daughter and bring her home. Their prayers this Christmas continue to focus on this special child whom they have not even seen yet but trust that God is providing. At this moment she is probably born and growing. They pray for her care and for those attending to her needs until they will be able to adopt her.
This couple represents many others who wait this year trusting that by next Christmas there will be another stocking hanging in their home. A simple stocking. A precious life.
There are many children who wait for their forever families. Some are here in the United States. Some wait abroad.
My youngest has been going around the house lately singing a simple song we created. I have yet to find the time to write it down but the chorus goes like this:
I'm adopted
I'm adopted
I belong to the living Lord.
He loved me and He held me and He called me His own.
Christmas is a time when the needs of orphans call to us. One more stocking? Maybe you can consider adopting a child or if not that maybe you can contribute to the needs of an orphan in other ways. First pray about it and then whatever God leads you to do, do it. You will never regret it.
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