A husband and wife in full-time Christian ministry. Southern transplants living in the northern midwest. Four sons, if not grown then quickly growing. Mom and Dad are in their fifties, not interested in easy retirement, but inevitably a little slower. Passions and hobbies include missions and evangelism, pro-life issues, racial restoration.
The goal: "taking risks and trusting God and doing unexpected and radical things."
What would your next step be? What would you do to take risks? When everyone around you is watching soaps and pining for grandchildren and lamenting over lost youth, what could you do that would be so unexpected and radical that everyone who heard would have to stop and glorify God?
For Noël, the answer was clear. For her husband John, it took a few more days to decide. This past week and a half or so on her blog, Noël Piper has been telling the story of how she and her husband adopted an African-American baby girl. It's delight, and the story isn't over yet. Read it!
And here's one girl who is inspired to follow the example of an older godly woman to also take risks and trust God and do unexpected and radical things both now and who knows, maybe thirty years from now!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Adoption is the coolest concept ever and I love and respect everyone who does it and I hope to do it too.
I know!! And in the Christian worldview, can there be any better way to "get it" that God has adopted us than to adopt a child? This is glorious Biblical truth lived out, and it's beautiful!
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