996) Through the years, I’ve known several people who have been adopted. Because I have always wondered how people think, act and react, it’s been interesting to look at these legal ties from both the adoptive parent (s) and the “adoptees”.  

Many people who adopt are those who yearn to open their homes and love to someone who, many times, has not experienced either. I imagine this is a yearning on the “parents’” part to love, give, and nurture someone. I have also observed individuals who were close to completing an adoption and then they find out that circumstances slammed this door shut. The heartbreak of the lives and faces of these courageous people when this happens is hard to watch.

People who are adopted often have two paths or reactions to their adoption. Some focus, momentarily or long-term, on the assumption that their biological parents didn’t want them anymore. Others have set their eyes on the fact that someone wanted them so badly, they jumped through every hoop to make this happen.

In Romans 8:14-17, we read of another adoption. God the Father gave the greatest gift anyone can give in order to adopt us–the life of his son, Jesus. If we think of this in human relationships, we can understand that Satan didn’t really want us, but figures if he goes down, so should we. Someone (God) who knows every part of us — good, bad or indifferent  — gave everything to call us sons and daughters. The icing on the cake is, not only has this adoption been completed, the legal ties last in this life and in the next.

Are you adopted?