I was looking at Zoe & Nora in the little shirts and thinking, "man, they have no idea." They have no idea that they were born into a family who loves adoption. They have no idea that they will likely be going on multiple trips to Ethiopia, celebrating Ethiopian holidays, and "gotcha days". But then I thought about it some more and realized they will no nothing different. We won't have to teach them that no matter what color you are God loves us all the same. They will only know a life with siblings with different color skin. And we won't have to help them understand that you can still be a family, even if you have different biological mommies and daddies. They won't know a thing different. We wont have to explain to them how much Jesus loves orphans and that we are called to take care of them. They won't have any memories otherwise. All they will ever remember is a family, all mixed up with different colored people.
Sometimes since having the girls I stop and think, "ok....what have I done. We finally have a really good system down here. Am I really about to rock the boat with another child who will likely have some special needs?" Because, having twins comes with some serious "special needs" and not a lot of sleeping, or eating, or cleaning, or talking to your husband or keeping up with friends. But when I stop and look into the future and know my girls will only know adoption as normal, when I realized we will have to teach them that we are in fact the "different" family it makes me smile! Because it took me a long time in my life to realize that as a Christian "different" is in fact our goal. We are supposed to be set apart. My girls will only ever remember being "different" and as odd as that sounds it makes me so very happy!
I can't wait to see what God has in store for us with little Jane, because the last two gifts he gave us were pretty amazing!! :)
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