‘Tis the Season to be Grateful for Family
With the Christmas season upon us, joy and gratefulness should be nestled within our hearts. And for good reason. Every person has something that they can be thankful for, despite what difficult circumstances they may have in their life. We can be thankful for family, for friends, for creation, for joy, for peace, for hope…or, if for none of these other things, for the very breath in our lungs and the lifeblood in our veins.
Family keeps coming to my mind as something I’m most thankful for this Christmas. Our work at New Beginnings is all about family. We see families come together all the time and see what a blessing they are to each other. Families aren’t perfect…they’re made up of imperfect members. But what a blessing to have a group of people you can call family….a group of people who is supposed to know you better than most, and love you anyway….a group of people you can count on in hard times and turn to in lonely times….a group of people that you have traditions with….a group who you celebrate joyous occasions with and grieve through hard times with. And blood lines do not make a family…love does.
It’s our prayer this Christmas season that, for all of those in the world who don’t have a group of people that they can call family, whether they be adults or children, that they will be set in a family, as Psalm 68:6 says: “God sets the lonely in families…” And it’s our prayer that we’ll have the continued strength, resources, and favor from God to have a small part in helping to set some of these people in families through adoption.