National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Month.  Adoption Sunday was a few weeks back.  Tomorrow will be National Tomato Day (ok, I made that one up....).  Our calendars are chock full of days and months that have been earmarked for some event or cause.  The day or month comes, gets a bunch of hoorah and then goes back into the calendar closet to collect dust until the day or month comes back around.

My question to each and all of us is what will you really do with that event or cause.  Obviously in the case of our family, adoption is something near to our hearts.  It is much more than an event, cause, or date on a calendar.  It's our daughter and son.  It's two kids that had no hope of a real life or future, if they made it that far alive.  It's a beautiful daughter who would have by now probably have been forced into horrible life choices by predatory people or lack of any other options, or dead.  It's a wonderful son who would continue to ride out the orphanage ride until he aged out, and ended up in prison, or dead. 

To us it is very real and personal.  It was not just something to fight and sacrifice for, it was SOMEONE to fight and sacrifice for.  The question for all is what will you do.  To what extent would you fight and sacrifice to protect and save your own children.  To what extent would you fight and sacrifice to protect and save a child that you would have to choose to make your own. 

Adoption isn't the easiest road which is always baffling to me.  There are millions of children literally dying to have a family.  The process and cost of adoption makes it really, really hard to get it done.  For any of us who already had children prior to adoption we know we would do anything for them.  We would kill to protect them and die to save them.  We would sacrifice any personal want or need to provide for them.  There are literally millions of orphans out there who need someone to save their life.  Let's go get them.