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The Gift of Shallow Waters

May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 ~ pursuedby ~ 2 Comments

I thought she had been a woman always living in fear, but she was really a woman who fiercely battled misplaced fears, in order to fear the only One she should. And that is a crucial difference.

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Fear’s Allure

May 5, 2018May 4, 2018 ~ pursuedby ~ 7 Comments

The dissection of fear allows us to see how it has the power to seduce and to save.

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“Someone should tell us exactly what verb love is. Love is a verb, and that verb is GIVE. Love gives. God is love and He gets to define love: For God so loved the world THAT HE GAVE... That’s what love is: Love gives. There is no other way to express love apart from givenness. THE ESSENCE OF LOVE IS LIVING GIVEN. Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way.” —Ann Voskamp Oh how we need this truth about love defined, declared, and lived loudly + softly. Whatever your position right now, spouse, sibling, parent, neighbor, friend, remember this: Protect true love and live true love. This is our highest calling, to love given to God and love given to our neighbor, ALL our neighbors, not just the ones we feel comfortable with . #thisisfostercare #naam19 #adoption #fostercare #family #lovemakesafamily #livegiven #racialreconcilliation #transracialadoption
#Adoption is not a dirty word. It’s tricky. It’s complicated. It’s born of the worst kind of sadness and pain. It’s imperfect. It’s hard. It’s not able to be fully understood. It’s full of opinions from many sides and points of view because ADOPTION IS mothers and fathers and children. It’s not just one person. It’s not just one circumstance. Each story is unique, each with its own reasons and histories and choices. Adoption has swung from fully closed to fully open. It’s swung from “isnt this amazing!” to “don’t downplay the trauma.” It’s changed from only hearing adoptive parents voices, to now hearing adoptees and birth parents perspectives. But online, adoption seems to be full of fear...for most, the wrong kind of #fear. Adoptive parents fear hearing adoptees stories. Biologicalparents fear sharing their stories. Adoptees fear hurting their parents feelings--all of them. Men and women hoping to add to their family through adoption fear first parents changing their minds. Those becoming parents through adoption fear hearing adult adoptees stories who wish they had never been adopted, or disagree with adoption altogether. We fear hearing "we need to shift the narrative from only the child to the entire family.” We fear seeing accounts who agree with us about “adoption and the gospel” and accounts who disagree with us...and the list goes on. Friends, we need to have conversations about this from all perspectives without this kind of fear. How? By remembering and believing there is a basis for unchanging truths when talking, learning + hearing about adoption. Why? Because adoption is in large part, suffering. And ALL Suffering requires true hope. True hope requires the gospel. The gospel is what allows us to hold suffering and pain in the same place as joy and love. Adoption requires you to have a space and place for both—For you to hear and not fear each perspective, each story, each hardship and each piece of gratefulness. If you want #redemption to have a place in the adoption conversation, and it should, you must start with why it’s required in the first place. You leave that out, and you are missing its magnitude. #nationaladoptionmonth
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