As you may know, many of our campers are adopted out of the foster system. These loving families that adopt know the day-to-day difficulties they are getting into. It makes me think of how intentional the parent’s love is for their children. Don’t get me wrong, bearing a child with special needs must take an immense amount of love and patience…but that is the hand they were dealt, not a choice that was made. Having a child with extreme issues (developmental, physical, emotional) and being an adoptive parent that looks past that to the person that just needs love…it just amazes me.
What we don’t realize is that our Heavenly Father does the same for us. Romans 1:16 says this: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” The gift of the gospel and salvation is freely given to God’s natural born children and also to us; his adopted, afflicted children that have so many issues no parent should want to have us. Praise God for adoptive parents…here on earth that take care of our precious campers and in heaven that take care of us.
