Not Impressed

I was reading a post by another blogger yesterday about a story that the 700 Club ran on the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit that was held recently. I had heard about this event & was interested to see the story on it. The story was done very well & it really showed how God had worked in several families. What got me was Pat Robertson's comments afterward. I was not impressed by his view on adoption of children with brain damage or emotional & physical issues. I know at this point we are not expecting to adopt a child with special needs but I am most certainly still a mother of a child who was born with special needs & ended up with brain damage & died from complications from it. I don't care if a child got that way because they were born that way or if it happened because they were exposed to either drugs or alcohol before birth. Those children deserve the right to be loved & in a good Christian home. We need to promote adoption for all these children whenever we can to homes that can care for their special needs, not raise our eyebrows saying "Adoption is a blessing, if you get the right child." Careless comments. Fearful comments.

Whenever we embark on a journey of adding a family member, there will be unknowns, whether by birth or adoption.  We know this on a personal level. There are no guarantees. We may say that we aren't open to this or that with our future child but we really don't have something set in stone that says that our future son won't have these issues at some point in his life. The fact is, there are blessings in children with special needs. We know this, some of our friends know this. God will blesses those families with a unique blessing. Some far greater than this world will ever know. For that, we praise Him & try to disregard the words of careless humans & go back to the word of God for our direction in life.

Matthew 25:40


40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'