Considering Friday...

Happy Resurrection Day! 

Did you know that this weekend is celebrating our adoption?

By celebrating resurrection day, we celebrate that Jesus provided a way to adopt us as heirs to his throne by dying for our sins and rising again. He predestined us to adoption. 

This made me think, we can celebrate our adoption to Jesus on Sunday, but do we remember the cost of Friday? 

Adoption is special to my heart because I believe God has called my husband and I to adoptive parenting. Josh and I have had experiences in our lives that we believe that God gave us to lead us to this decision.

I do a lot of research on attachment and adoption for my personal and professional reasons, and I came across this post from adoptive mom Shannon Dingle that made me consider the "Fridays" of adoptive parenting in relation to this holiday weekend.

Shannon states, "Have we rushed to celebrate Easter without pausing to consider the weight of Good Friday?" Shannon often encountered people who commend her "sainthood" and state that they "just love adoption." Shannon states that she does not rush to glorify adoption because it came from something that was broken, a brokenness that "has loomed larger than the beauty."  She goes on to state some of the traumatic experiences that have brought her children into her care, things that no person should have to go through. Adoption is wonderful, but we must remember that it was necessary because of pain. 

We choose our adoption to Christ, but do we consider often enough that it caused Christ death upon the cross. Do we consider that our brokenness and sin has caused Christ pain?

Adoption is born of brokenness.

It broke Christ to adopt us. 

Are we broken enough in our own lives about our adoption to Christ to have a real relationship with our Father?

Let’s have the thankfulness this resurrection day to appreciate the God who was broke for us so that he could bear our brokenness. And remember that he did rise again with victory so that we can have victory over sin as his children!