Orphan Sunday

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and today is specifically Orphan Sunday, a day recognized around the world. A day to be reminded of the 18.3 million orphans worldwide. A day to take a moment out of our extremely blessed and fast-paced lives to think about those in a different place in life than us. A day to remember the children...but more so...that 18.3 million means 18.3 million stories, hearts, faces, names (some unnamed), birth mothers, birth fathers, and potential adoptive families.

My family and I got to take part in one of the most powerful and emotional experience that I have been through at church today.  Our church put together a video capturing the beauty of being an adopted family.  Then at the end of the video, everyone revealed their matching shirts that said, "Adopted." stating we are all adopted into the family of Christ.  I hope to be able to share this video with you, but for now, you just get to see us in our shirts.

James 1:27 - "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."