Opening Your Heart
July 24, 2023
Opening your heart is not for the faint of heart. If you doubt this, get to know a family with adopted children. Get to know a family who have adopted children from diverse cultures or races different from their own.
They can tell you of the times their hearts have broken. When their love was not enough to fill the hole in their child’s heart. When the world’s bias and unkindness was beyond what they could control. When the damage was beyond their fixing.
You can help. Don’t ask them, “Is that your real child.” (I’m tempted to answer, “No, it’s my plastic one.”) Our humor gets a little crazy, of necessity.
Read Scripture that tells us that heavens population will be multicolored and multicultural.
Greater than the challenges of an open heart are the blessings.