Comments on: City on a hill, part 2 … but what city do they see? http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/233 the blog of carolina hope christian adoption agency Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dorothy Bode http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/233#comment-1657 Dorothy Bode Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:50:44 +0000 http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/233#comment-1657 Great observation Josh! I never made the connection between Christ's earthly parentage and situations we deal with as adoptive parents. Now I'm thinking further into the reality that Joseph must have had to deal with not just in the begining but further on into his adopted sons life. Great observation Josh! I never made the connection between Christ’s earthly parentage and situations we deal with as adoptive parents. Now I’m thinking further into the reality that Joseph must have had to deal with not just in the begining but further on into his adopted sons life.

]]> By: Josh Jensen http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/233#comment-1656 Josh Jensen Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:53:42 +0000 http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/233#comment-1656 I remember talking once to an adoptive mom, a married woman in her late 30s. She and her husband (both Caucasian) had 3 bio children and 2 adopted from Guatemala. She said that when she would go to the supermarket with all the kids, she regularly got looks that suggested disapproval of a lifestyle that would produce so many children, some with a white father and some with a Hispanic father. I don't know that anyone ever articulated this to her, though, and I certainly don't know what her response would have been. I think there's an analogy in Mary, the blessed mother of our Lord. Many of her contemporaries thought that she had born Jesus through an extra-marital affair. We don't know how she handled this, but at the very least she had the assurance that she had found favor with God -- as have all adoptive parents who are in Christ. I remember talking once to an adoptive mom, a married woman in her late 30s. She and her husband (both Caucasian) had 3 bio children and 2 adopted from Guatemala. She said that when she would go to the supermarket with all the kids, she regularly got looks that suggested disapproval of a lifestyle that would produce so many children, some with a white father and some with a Hispanic father. I don’t know that anyone ever articulated this to her, though, and I certainly don’t know what her response would have been.

I think there’s an analogy in Mary, the blessed mother of our Lord. Many of her contemporaries thought that she had born Jesus through an extra-marital affair. We don’t know how she handled this, but at the very least she had the assurance that she had found favor with God — as have all adoptive parents who are in Christ.

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