Adoption is not a Sprint: Run with Endurance

As I sit and fill out another grant for our adoption, I am reminded that we are nearing the end of the first leg of our adoption. We anticipate that we could just be weeks away from finally meeting, holding, kissing and talking to Waverly not just talking about her. Just like a biological mom forgets the birth pains that she has endured soon after giving birth, I expect that the years of waiting, praying, mounds of paperwork and money, tears, and hoops we have jumped through will soon be just a faint memory when compared to the joy of holding our daughter and bringing her home to her forever family.

So too it is with the Christian race. There are days, even seasons, where my heart aches and struggles with the daily grind of the Christian walk. Even so we continue on for we know that this is not our home. Though for a short time we must battle against the sin in the world and that in our own hearts we know that One has come who has defeated and will finally defeat sin and death.

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumberance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of faith, who for the joy set before Him edured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2

Waverly, just like God did not leave us as orphans but endured the cross and rose again defeating death for all those who would turn from their sins and trust in Him, your Mommy and Daddy will not leave you as an orphan. We WILL come to you. (John 14:18)