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March 30, 2010
Unadoptable File
The Bible
EARS TO HEAR is the radio ministry of FAMILIES. BY GOD. For EARS TO HEAR, here’s Tim Glisson.
All of us have experienced being rejected. Whether it’s being cut from the team, left home from the prom, not getting our choice of college or not getting the job at all, the message to us is the same: you’re not wanted.
And although it hardly defines us, it may influence how we define ourselves.
That’s the case for many kids exiting the Child Welfare System.
Every county in this country has a version of an “unadoptable” file: A compilation of kids who have been in care so long their workers contend they can never live in a family setting.
The major thrust of the argument is that institutional living is so different from typical family life that kids pass the point of adjustability – and thus, adoptability.
But that’s not how the kids see it, or themselves. They’ve grown up thinking they weren’t smart enough, nice enough, pretty enough, or just plain good enough, to be wanted.
As Christians we need to reach out to these kids – now adults. We need to find them; and tell them how much God loves them, how much He has planned for them, and how much Christ paid for them to prove to them how much He wants them.
And we need to do it today: out of gratitude for God’s grace and mercy – to us. Because if there were ever an unadoptable file in heaven, you and I would both be in it.
If you have EARS to HEAR the cry of the child, please visit our website at FAMILIESBYGOD.org or call 315-687-5322. For EARS TO HEAR, I’m Tim Glisson.
