adoption

Toward the end of Max Lucado's book God Came Near, he talked about a story at a funeral. The lady named Carmino who stood alone and mourned quietly turned out to be the adoptive child of the family. She was born of a prostitute, father unknown. The mom had compassion when saw the little girl, knowing that she would otherwise have no one to love her, pay attention to her, no home, no future. The girl was adopted to the family. Decades later, at the mother's funeral... When the funeral ended, everybodyt left, the doors were about to be locked, a soft, broken voice was heard. It was Carmino, by the casket, crying and kept saying thank you to the mother.

Lucado kept going on and says something like, we too were adopted by God into His family. We would have no future, no hope if it wasn't so... When nobody would give us the time of a day, God gives us the time of a whole life.

I cried.

Ephesians 1:3-8
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.