"Adoption is created through loss; without loss there would be no adoption. Loss, then, is at the hub of the wheel. All birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees share in having experienced at least one major, life-altering loss before becoming involved in adoption. In adoption, in order to gain anything, one must first lose--a family, a child, a dream. It is these losses and the way they are accepted and, hopefully, resolved which set the tone for the lifelong process of adoption."I was thinking about this in regards to our spiritual adoption. Did Christ lose something? He experienced pain and trauma. Did he lose something? Did he lose a dream? Did he have a dream? Maybe this cannot be applied to our spiritual adoption. Something inside me says it should apply but I am not sure. What do you think?
-Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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My wife found this quote somewhere.... I think it was on adoption blog but I don't know which one or where.
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I think he had a dream that mankind would choose intimacy with him and the fruit from the tree of life rather than sin and the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
In the end, as a result of the loss of this dream, both mankind and God suffered, but God suffered most through the death of Christ Jesus.
did he not lose his 'chosen ones' the Jews, who rejected him?
He came unto his own and his own received him not?
berni
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