An Adoption Experience

     In an interview on Life Today, Lisa Harper, a Christian author and speaker, shared her experience with adoption. For years, she wanted a child, but her twenties and thirties passed her by, and she remained childless. After a discouraging experience with trying to adopt a child in the U.S., God sent her to Haiti to adopt a little girl whose mother had died of AIDS.

     Not many people want something that is broken or damaged. The orphaned child was very sick and had also tested positive for AIDS. However, despite the child’s diagnosis, Harper pursued the adoption process, and became her mother.

     Immediately, there was a perfect bond of love. The two became inseparable…like “peas in a pod”. Outside of the fact that they are visibly from different races and cultures, it would otherwise be difficult to establish that Harper is not the child’s biological mother.

     The child often expressed her gratitude for the smallest of things. She even thanked her mother each time she administered AIDS medications, which Harper described as heart wrenching.

     Harper began praying to God for a blood test that would no longer show any signs of the dreaded disease. Soon, God answered. Around Christmas, she received a call from the hospital that confirmed the miracle.

    With joy, Harper celebrates the faith which God gives that strengthens us to step into His plan and provision. Without such faith, it would have been easy to justify reasons for not going through with the adoption. It would have been easier to find a healthy child to adopt. It would have been easy to give up on adoption all together.

     This story reminded me of how God did not give up on us. He could have chosen to abandon us…a sin-sick, broken and damaged people, and begin the process all over again. He could have created another world and another people. But, His love never fails, and His goodness and mercy endures forever…

     God yearns to “adopt” all who will come to Him. His desire is to become a Father to all who receive His Son, Jesus Christ, as their personal Lord and Savior. In the miracle of salvation, Jesus’ perfect blood covers sin, and heals once broken and sin-sick lives.

     I can truly relate to the grateful heart of the adopted little girl. As a child of God, I am thankful for my Father’s love and provision. I am thankful that He brought me out of a place of sin and death into everlasting life. I am thankful that through His Son, I am healed. And last, but not least, I am thankful for a new home…Heaven. My prayer is that you can say the same.  


Be Blessed, In Jesus' Name,
Angie