3 Replies to “God Chose You For This Family”

1. I love this and agree totally. Thanks for writing it so beautifully.

2. Hi Jamie,

   I’m an adoptive mother of three. I appreciate your passion and devotion to God and your children. I also have a really hard time with this idea of telling kids God planned adoption for them…because if you follow that line of reasoning, then God also planned poverty, trauma, loss etc for these innocent children. I’m a Christian, but in a denomination that takes a different theological approach that allows for a bigger role for human reason and action. A lot of suffering that drives the need for children to be adopted is human-made, in my opinion. I would never feel comfortable telling my kids God planned loss of adoption for them, however, I do think we can be thankful for the life we have together now.

   1. I am a mom of two adopted siblings. They are my own, as if borne of my body, no doubt about it. However, I agree with Sharon that these children were not meant for me. These children were created by and for their biological parents. In a world without sin (which is the reason for death, trauma, loss, illness, etc.) my kids would have never lost their bio-parents, never had to live in an orphanage, and never have been adopted by a family (mine) who speaks another language, looks quite different, lives halfway around the world, and comes from an unknown culture. I believe that God absolutely orchestrated these kids coming into my family, but I also believe that it grieves Him that there was ever a need for adoption in the first place. I think we do our children and our own hearts a disservice to deny the fact that our world is not how God created it to be, and while God is sovereign, He allows his children to make mistakes (free will). These children are mine, God has entrusted them into my care, and He knew things would play out this way from the beginning, yet it is not how it was supposed to be. Our hope is in His promise for a restored and brand new forever home where every tear shed by us, our adopted children, and their biological families will be wiped away for good.

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