National Adoption Month
Posted Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Spanglish Gringo
Stories, thoughts & insights on Jesus, college students, and the Bible; Los Angeles, immigration, politics, ethnicity and culture, and also about my daughter Isabel - from a spanglish gringo father living in, learning from, leading & loving life in East L.A.
Stories, thoughts & insights on Jesus, college students, and the Bible; Los Angeles, immigration, politics, ethnicity and culture, and also about my daughter Isabel - from a spanglish gringo father living in, learning from, leading & loving life in East L.A.
November 13th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Jan and I adopted. When you get past all the religious and political and cultural differences that divide everybody, this is a pretty good way to shine your little light in a way that most folks like.
November 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am
I absolutely agree.
Here is a bit of my soapbox: I know a guy who spent over $40k on the fertilization process… for each of his first 3 kids!!! Don’t get me wrong - I can understand the parental desire to bear children through pregnancy. I know that bearing children and adopting are very personal topics, where sweeping generalities don’t always speak sensitively to the legitimate complexity.
But, having said that, I do believe the general trend in the U.S. towards fertility treatment instead of toward adoption is a trend in the wrong direction - physically, emotionally, financially and socially. I’m neither that good looking nor intelligent that my child’s gene’s need to come from me.
With all the political uproar that many churches and Christians have about abortion, the silence and absence of a prophetic Christian presence about abortion is deafening.