To My Sweet Baby G

This last Sunday I had a baby shower.  To say the least we have been blessed. Friends and family came and showered me with gifts and love. Then they prayed over me for our trip and for Baby G. My mom said something in her prayer and it just hit me so hard, she asked God to bless this baby who doesn't even know he has been rescued. So I started thinking, what do I want my child to know and understand about his rescue? This is it

Dear Sweet Baby,
You don't even know we exist. You are living in an orphanage just trying to survive each day. You have already survived against all odds. You don't know a mothers love or a fathers protection. You have been all alone in this world since you were born. To some you are just a poor African child who was abandoned on the street. But to us, you are our son. You are the one God chose to be ours. We choose YOU despite your circumstances and your background. We already have this deep love for you and we have never even held you. You are going from a life of neglect to a life full of love and commitment all because we choose you to be our son. We don't care what physical or emotional issues you may come with, we already love you unconditionally. My prayer for you is that you come to understand that our love for you is a small fraction of the love God has for you. Just like you, we were orphans but God chose to send his son to save us. God chose us, with our sin and all our baggage he chose to die for us just so that we could be called his children. Don't you understand? Your parents are not these people who should be commended for rescuing an orphan child. No, your parents were lost sinners who were saved by Gods grace through Christ's death on the cross. We deserve punishment for our sins, a life out of the presence of God. But instead we get a relationship with Christ, a life where he gives us a purpose and a plan for our lives. And guess what? YOU were a part of that plan. God CHOSE you to be our son before we even knew it.

So, no you aren't  an orphan. You never were. God knew your parents. He had already chosen you to be ours. You are undeserving like us, but God loves you and has a plan for your life. My prayer is that you always know you aren't an orphan. You are a child of God first and our child second.