The beautiful truth for adoptive parents is that God has placed children in their families for healing and redemption.
Every adopted child has a story and that story will influence others. Some of the events of a child’s life prior to adoption are not difficult to communicate. Yet for other children, their life events and stories speak of horrific physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect, trauma, abandonment and more. The beautiful truth for adoptive parents is that God has placed children in their families for healing and redemption. The word redemption means to “restore dignity to.” As God embraced us as His children to restore our dignity, in that same way, adoptive parents embrace their children.
Many children who have experienced difficult life situations come to believe that they are not worth anything and that they do not deserve good things. An adoptive parent’s lifelong message to his child comes from God’s Word. God’s powerful truth is this:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
That message can be lived out every day as parents communicate unconditional love and acceptance, communicate belonging in the family and picture a future of hope and promise with that child.
Jayne is an adoptive parent as well as the author/co-author of eight books in the foster and adoptive field, including Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child and Wounded Children, Healing Homes. She is one of the primary authors of the Trauma Free World’s Trauma Competent Care giving series and trains internationally. For more information on the training series, visit www.traumafreeworld.org.
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