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Quotes and Scripture

Below are some quotes and scripture passages that have been shared with us through others.
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Legacy of an Adopted Child 

Once there were two women, neither knew the other 

One you do not remember, the other you call mother. 

One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name 

One gave you the seed of talent, the other gave you an aim. 

Two very different lives shaped yours into one 

One became your guiding star, the other was your sun. 

One gave you emotions, and one calmed your fears 

One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears. 

The first gave you life, the second taught you to live it. 

The first gave you a need for love, the second was there to give it. 

One gave you up—it was all that she could do, 

The other prayed for a child—God led her straight to you. 

And now you ask me through your tears, 

The age-old question of all the years, 

Heredity or Environment, which are you a product of? 

Neither darling, neither ... just two different kinds of Love. 

~Unknown

 

 

We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life.
But those who make their journey home across time & miles,
growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them,
are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us
by God's very own hands.

--- Kristi Larson 

 

TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION: Adopting a child of another race

INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION: Adopting a child from one country by a family of another country

TRANSCULTURAL ADOPTION: Adopting across national, ethnic, and/or racial lines. 

   ~the Whole Life Adoption Book

 

"All children who need to be looked after outside their own homes, for whatever reason, are children at risk....The people who adopt them are in a unique position to prevent life crises from becoming pathogenic, to prevent separation experiences from developing into deprivation, to provide the kind of upbringing for each child that will make good his past deficiencies."

    ~Sula Wolff, "Children Under Stress"

 

NATURAL CHILD: any child who is not artificial

REAL PARENT: any parent who is not imaginary

YOUR OWN CHILD: any child who is not someone else's child

ADOPTED CHILD: a natural child with a real parent, who is all my own

     ~ Rita Law

 

"Adoptive families differ only from other families because of the circumstances that brought them together. The needs of adopted children are just like those of children who enter the family by birth. We all need to belong."

   ~ Family Ties

 

 

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat,
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,
I was a stranger and you invited me in, .....
The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth,
whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine,
you did for me.

--- Matthew 25:35,40 

 

 

 

God sets the lonely in families.
--- Psalm 68:6

 

 



Religion that God our Father Accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

 

--- James 1:27

 

 


I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.

 

---1 Samuel 1:27 
 
 
 
 
 "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me;
and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me."   
Mark 9:37