An Adoption Reflection

One of the hardest things about being in Lesotho are the sad stories of abandonment. It breaks my heart that life can be so hard that there is no choice but to walk away from an innocent child who is undeserving of such a hardship. This reflecting got me thinking of the story of Moses.
A mother desperate to keep her son but she can't or he will be killed (or in Lesotho the child would starve to death or get HIV from nursing, etc). In her desperation she hides him and lets her daughter look on as she leaves her son in the river. What a horrible place she must have been in. She only knew her own devastation that she had to let him go, she never could have known what God had planned. Abandoning a child has to be horrible and traumatic for so many mothers who are forced to do it and it is hard to even try to be in their shoes.
Then this little baby boy is found by a princess and is adopted. Abandoned in desperation, then adopted to be the rescuer of the Hebrew people! Born to be adopted by another woman so God's plan could be perfected. Knit together in his mother's womb, but not meant to stay in her arms for more than a few years. Chosen to be someone else's son so that more good could come to a whole nation than to one family. WOW, that is powerful!!!!!!
There are many days when my human weakness takes over and I am tempted to doubt God's plan when I hear sad stories or witness heart wrenching moments, but God's plan is so much better, bigger and well it is just perfect. When God is knitting together His children, He has an amazing plan that sometimes can only be brought together through adoption. Just some thoughts I have been reflecting on today and thought I'd share them.