Adoption is something which has gained some press in recent years with the "celebrity adoptions" courtesy of Angelina Jolie and Madonna. With the world waiting with bated breath around the ruling from a Malawi court around Madonna's planned second adoption from that African country, commentator Roland Martin wonders why there isn't more attention given towards the 500,000 kids in the United States who are under foster care and eligible to be placed in families. Or put another way, why aren't celebrities surrounded by paparazzi as they walk into a social services agency in Decatur, Illinois to adopt 3-year old Timmy Hunter?
As Martin himself says, the bringing in of any child in this world into a loving family is a cause for celebration. As someone who is staunchly pro-life, adoption is one of the best ways to live out such a conviction - that's why every child who is brought into a non-biologically linked family is a way we affirm the choice made by a mother not to cut a life short through abortion. Each adoption is a repudiation of the a desperate and wrong belief that "this child that I carry can never be cared for and thus shouldn't live."
I have friends who are adopted. I have friends who have adopted children. I have friends who have given children up for adoption. Something I hear in common from many of them, especially from those who are Christian, is that adoption has completely magnified, sometimes in retrospect, their appreciation and view of sonship, of the grace of God manifest in bringing us into His family. The amazing truth of being made a joint heirs with Christ, not as servants or second-class citizens within the Kingdom, but with the full privilege of someday dining at the table with our King and Father.
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