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About Our Unexpected Journey

3/27/07. Our log in date to adopt from China. I wanted to be obedient to what God commands us in scriptures, to take care of the fatherless, but I wanted to put my own parameters around what that looks like.....a healthy girl under one year old. That was my limits to obedience. Seemed fair to me. I'm willing to put the time and resources into caring for our child, the least He could do was allow me to have those few things. But obedience is a funny thing. For over 5 years, as the wait lengthened to bring our child home, God and I wrestled with what obedience looked like. Greek scripture study says obedience conveys the idea of positioning oneself under someone by submitting to their authority and command and another word in the New Testament means "to trust." Trust, hmmm. Another tricky word. How can I trust what society tells me can lead to a life of suffering and difficulties and how do we willingly submit to that fate? Easy. By looking at the Grace the Lord Jesus Christ gave me the day he took my sins upon himself. The same day he cried in the Garden of Gethsemane and asked that the cup could be taken from him (Mark 14:36). I have been to my own garden of trouble and distress. Not to the identity of my future child, but to givng up my desires and my timeframe that I clung to so desperately. But as I study Jesus in the garden, it was not only a place where he expressed an agonizing prayer, but also a place of obedient resignation and strength. Jesus says, "Not what I will, but what You will." (Mark 14:36) and "an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him." (Luke 22:43) Well, you hopefully know the rest of the story. Jesus Christ started (or better yet, finished) another journey. To the cross, where he purposd victory over sin and access to eternal life with God to all who believe. In light of my gratefulness for his redemptive work on the cross, I can respond with nothing other than obedience to what might seem hard and inconvienent. It's nothing compared to what I have in my Savior. Our journey to our son started with our physical adoption but has taken me to far deeper places, my spiritual adoption. Where Jesus Christ redeemed me and took back what was rightfully his. The way ahead promises to be hard, but my joy and my transformation is greater. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39.

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