What a Wonderful Gift

Just reflecting today on the amazing gift God has given us.  Redemption, salvation, sanctification.  Thinking ahead to Friday's meeting with Sharon (our adoption worker) I keep thinking about how we as christians are adopted into the family of God.  Our identity is in Him and we are loved and secure.  Some of our friends were just chosen by a birth mother and are expecting their little girl in the fall.  A youth pastor couple we have been following from CFCA were just matched as well.  So many mommies are out there making a courageous decision to give a couple the gift of life and yet we all have the opportunity to not only to give a home and a family but to share THE GIFT OF LIFE with them.  When I think about what it took for Christ to extend that gift to me I can't help but be overwhelmed with love and gratitude.  We are so excited to experience this whole process.  At times it may be very difficult but ultimately we cannot imagine a greater joy than welcoming a child into our family and shepherding them into a loving relationship with their heavenly father so our little one can be twice adopted.

Ephesians 1:3-10

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.