I have a wonderful friend...*Lolo. She is this amazing woman of God. She gets it, you know? She knows she is a child of the King, that He created her for His glory and pleasure, and that all rest and security is found in Him. I recently (out of guilt to someone else) sent her one of those crazy form emails; "Answer these 20 questions and send it back to your friend" (62 actually) Now there was this question. "What did you want to be as a child" My answer was "A truck driver. My favorite show was 'BJ and the Bear' and I wanted a pet chimpanzee and thought you had to drive a truck to have a chimpanzee" Funny right? Imagine how my parents felt when people asked their "princess" "What do you want to be when you grow up?" A truck driver!? Wow. Silly. **How proud they must have been!
Lolo's answer was way different. "What did you want to be as a child?" Her answer was "LOVED" UUUGGGHHH! She broke my heart. Lolo's family was abandoned by her father leaving her mother, who had a 6th grade education, to raise three kids on her own. Lolo's family was poor. She can remember nights wondering where her head would land and on what pillow. She remembers wondering where her next meal would come from (as an adult she began to hoard food, if she had one box of oatmeal she had ten). For a time there was very little order or stability in her life. This emptiness she felt eventually led her to an alternative lifestyle. Lolo came to find Jesus and He delivered her in ways she never thought possible. She married a wonderful man, has two great boys, and is a very Godly woman who is a real inspiration to many.
We are adopting because there are hundreds of thousands of children in this world that want just what Lolo wanted....to be loved. Oh, suffer the little children to come to me, Jesus said.
We chose international adoption but there are so many domestically that need love too. So what do we do? Jesus tells us to take care of the "widows and orphans" I think nowadays that includes single moms and kids from broken homes. Here are some links
Dave Thomas Foundation
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America
Bethany Christian Services Adoption Agency
*Name has been changed to protect my behind
**No truck drivers were deliberately harmed in the writing of this blog
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