Not Every Child Is Easy to Love, But Love Can Reveal Their Beauty! 🥰
Medyo seryoso ang topic natin ngayon, pero isa rin itong paraan para makahanap ng kagandahan. Do you have any experience with adoption? Hindi na bago sa atin, mga Pinoy, ang pagkakaroon ng anak na ampon—minsan mula sa relative na hindi na kayang mag-alaga dahil sa dami ng anak. For us, before we adopted our own second son, we encountered many people who had poor experiences with adopted children: many of them complained na nagiging rebelde daw ang mga bata paglaki, which caused them to have a negative view of adoption.
But when the Lord was leading us to consider adopting a child, one of the truths that hit us hard was this: many of these children who are given up for adoption are considered a burden for different reasons. For example, yung mga nanay na hindi kayang alagaan ang mga batang ito could be because of poverty or teenage pregnancy.
Then, some of these children who grew up in an orphanage, wala ring gustong mag-ampon sa kanila. Dahil daw marami na silang mga bagahe at hindi na pwedeng turuan. (Which is not always true—sure, it’s more challenging, but there are ways we can learn to help these children thrive.) And He showed us that bringing children into one’s family is a way of seeing beauty in something that the world considers a burden.
At ito ang nakasulat sa Bible:
Ang mga nag-iisa sa buhayay ihinahanap niya ng pamilyang kabibilangan. (Salmo 68:6 ASD)
Because of Jesus’ love, we can find beauty in the lives of children, even those from hard places. Sa buhay mo ba, may mga bata bang mahirap mahalin para sa’yo? You can ask Him to help you find just one thing that’s beautiful in them.
Tandaan mo, isa kang miracle!
