A Gift of Family

Families are always growing and changing as we grow and change especially our extended families. My extended family is huge in my opinion. For so many years, I was cut off from them by my ex-husband. Life is so different now! I have had a wonderful blessing of getting reconnected with some of them through the technology of Face Book. Many of my cousins and I are in our 30s and 40s now. This boggles the mind! At least my mind. We are now the ages that our parents were when we used to hang out together as children.

Today I am writing this article because I am extremely excited about sharing in a HUGE joy! An AMAZING blessing of one of my cousins and his wonderful, dear wife! For years they have been trying to have a baby and then for years after that trying to adopt. It has been heartbreaking for them and for all of us as we watched them go through the pain and heartache because these two lovely people would be incredible parents. But yesterday, all of the waiting came to an end!!!

My cousins- Steve and Nora- became Mom and Dad for the first time in their lives!!!! They went through an agency and yesterday officially adopted a beautiful baby boy in Korea. He is almost one year old. They are spending a little time together as a brand new family in Korea to help him to adjust to the changes and get to know one another. I am SOOO incredibly happy for them!!! I can’t express how much happiness this has given to Steve and Nora and their new son. But the happiness it is bringing to all of those who know and love them it is doing the same. I cannot imagine their speechless joy right now! The awe they are feeling! The wonder of being new parents!

This news really made me start thinking about God a lot. And it made me think about the fact that we are adopted sons and daughters of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Can you imagine the great joy God experiences when just one of us turns from a life of sin and comes to Him and receives Him as our savior and Father? Wow! Oh Wow!!!! And that is the kind of joy that we should experience when we walk with someone on the road of moving toward getting to know God and accepting the incredible gift of Salvation that He offers us. But remember!!! God also gives us another incredible gift!!! He gives us the gift of a family of believers…This family comes in all shapes and sizes…colors and backgrounds…strengths and weaknesses and different denominations and styles of worship!!!!

Wow! Isn’t that incredible? So tomorrow when we are in church, let’s look around and remember that even if you don’t know them very well you are surrounded with your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, parents and grandparents, cousins….etc. etc. etc. We are a family of believers!!!! So let’s take the time to get to really know each other…to find out what joys and sorrows they are going through. And to learn about each other and be there for each other!!! While we are doing that we must remember that no family is perfect. We need to be loving and forgiving with our family of believers too.

Wow!!! So Steve and Nora my prayers are with you and I am soooo excited for your incredible news! But as I celebrate…I remember that God has convicted my heart of the importance of being there and reconnecting with my family in Christ just as I have been doing with my relatives lately. Kind of gives family a whole new meaning doesn’t it?

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