Ad(option)

It was the saddest and most confusing seven minutes. I stayed until the end of the video, and even after listening to all their reasons, I could not conceive the decision of their return. The four-year-old boy from China, who had been chosen as his son when he was just a baby -in an adoption process- was being returned.

In professional terms, this is called "failed adoption". Adoptions often fail for various reasons, and the consequences for parents and children are very difficult to resolve. However, it happens: when coexistence is unsustainable or expectations are unsurpassed, a failed adoption occurs. The cause-effect of these is considered to have the same painful impact as abandoning a biological child.

This led me to read many stories of failed adoptions, some frivolous and others heartbreaking. With this, I don't want to give you a bad perspective on adoption. There are beautiful stories; I find it incredible to have the opportunity to be the means that God uses to change the life of someone who had no hope or simply did not feel so good and sufficient for having been abandoned.

Surely you saw the movie "Lion", if you have not, please accept my recommendation. It is a story based on real events. An Australian couple adopt two children from India. The experience with the first child was wonderful; with the second, it was complex and difficult, he came with many psychological traumas... but in the hearts of those parents never crossed the idea of ​​return. Did this resolve the difficulties they had to face with their child? No. Even as an adult he gave them many problems, only love for him, sustained them as a family.

I share this with you, because I can't stop thinking about the most impressive adoption story recorded in the Bible. The term "children of God" would not be possible without an adoption process. The book of Galatians 4: 4-6 describes it this way:

---

''But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

---

The concept of seeing God as a Father has never been recorded in human history. It was not until Jesus, his Son, appeared on earth, that he made known to us that there is a deeper and closer relationship with him. There is no closer and more intimate relationship than that of parents to children. So, the expression "adopt us as your own children" is one of the most powerful brands of love that exists. This adoption process does not detract from us, we are as children of God as Jesus. The Father loves us as is. We have the same benefits, inheritances and duties.

Better yet, there are no failed adoptions in Him. You are not "disposable or returnable". It is not that because you come to Him with difficulties, hurt, broken, defective, with an endless number of emotional, psychological and moral problems... that one day he will wake up and say "I can't take it anymore, I'm going to give you back and put you in another family''. God is of eternal choices. You are no longer just an ad(option), from the day you received Jesus into your heart, you are His son and eternal choice.

Today I feel so grateful: I am His daughter and He loves me. You are His child and His love you.

I hug you!