Today is Orphan Sunday! This is a video Spencer made of all the families at our church who have adopted:
If you want to hear more of my thoughts on adoption, read this, this, this, this, and this.
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“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
-James 1:27
Adoption is God’s command to His church. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have never seen anything that can be so ugly, but it can be so beautiful–so beautiful.
But real beauty always goes hand-‘n-hand with ugliness in this world.
Adoption can be sad. It can be convicting. It can be humbling. Because every one of us needs to be adopted. Every one of us needs to be redeemed.
We love, because we are loved.
We give, because we have received.
We care for orphans, because we were orphans.
We adopt, because we were adopted.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Beautifully said!
Great video, Spencer!
Good blog post, Hanna! 🙂
Oh! And, by the way, Savannah said that she would get on me about asking who whoever Legolas is, and she said that you and Ellen would have to too, So…….. 🙂
– Jaidyn
You don’t know who Legolas Greenleaf is? Little Hobbit would flip. He’s her fave.
Well, as you can see, the rest of us are freaking out!
Have you read “The Lord of the Rings” yet, Jaidyn?
I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
Okay, I’ve never really read the books, but I DO know that he’s an elf…….. ?
– Jaidyn
I do agree. She’d make a GREAT twin……….
It’s fine. 🙂 Just. . . you should read them sometime!
Great post!!!
Loved the post Hanna, and the video was wonderful! ~Savannah
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. ~Sky
I love this post! The video was really cool too!
Thanks, guys! Spencer has made a video like this for three years now, and they always turn out great!
Great video and post!!! Adoption is a wonderful reminder of how God redeemed us!!!
Isn’t it mystery quote day?? I wanna see if ANY of my guesses were right………
Me too.