Are there 3 - 4 people that you can’t imagine life being as
good as it is if they weren’t here being their kind, inspirational, crazy,
funny, athletic, supportive, spiritual, kind, whatever self?
Perhaps these individuals are in your personal life and so
integral to your happiness that you would not be content if they didn’t exist. Maybe they are public figures who are making such
a large contribution to the world that if we lost their presence and voice we would
be much the less without them.
Take a moment and please close your eyes and think about who
these people are for you.
Do you
have them in mind?
I invite you to
watch it and to imagine how adoption changed their lives and, in turn, changed
ours.
If not for the
courageous, good-hearted people who put the needs of a child before themselves,
imagine how the lives of John
Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Jamie Fox, Eleanor Roosevelt, and
the others might have
turned out.
- · Would they have still been who they became?
- · Would they even be here?
We
will never know. All I can be certain of
is that I am different because they were adopted and lived the lives that were
given to them.
On this Memorial Day Weekend, while we remember our brave military men and women who honor and protect LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS for us, may we also honor all the ways people enter our lives and make them better. We wouldn’t be the same without them.
Thanks for
reading,
Lori
Prayer:
Gracious God, may we choose life for ourselves and others every day in
every way. Amen
Action: Find
out the facts about adoption. For
example, do you know that November is National Adoption month? There are podcasts that will give you new,
positive information for yourself or people in your community who might be
considering adoption, informed terminology about how to talk about adoption (the
way we talk says a lot about what we value), current statistics, etc.
#adoption #imagine
#militaryheros #adoptanewattitude #lifelibertypursuitofhappiness
