Jamey says my blog isn't lame and I'm trying to believe her but I've seen other blogs and they are...well, interesting.  In an attempt to make my blog more interesting I'm going to try to write about more interesting things.  Rocket Science, right?  Today's blog will be about the motivation behind our adoption.

"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time.  But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."  ~ Aboriginal Activist Group 1970s

This quote is a pretty accurate account of why we are adopting.  It isn't about saving someone from poverty.  I know that may sound strange to some people but in our minds poverty is not reason enough to relinquish your children.  We've both seen poverty.  We've both seen people who live on so much less than we do and are loving and loved and a family.  Contrary to how we live in the United States, the quality of your life is not about the quantity of your stuff. 

It isn't about pity.   We don't think we are better off in the United States than other people are around the world.  In many respects I'm sorry to say we will offer our internationally adopted children a lot less than what they would receive from their birth family and birth culture. 

We aren't adopting out of guilt.  This is not something we are doing because we have to or because the Bible says to take care of widows and orphans. 

We are adopting because of justice and equity.  Because there is no "us" and there is no "them."  There is only "we."  There are children who need families and we are a family who knows we have the capacity to love someone else's children as our own.  Because no child should wonder if they are loved or if they will ever be loved again. 

Frankly, we don't know if we can have biological children.  We've never tried.  It is important for us that adoption is our first choice.  We want to be able to look at our children and say, "We only wanted you."

Jamey and I discovered today that we hold the same song in our hearts about adoption.  "I see the moon and the moon sees me.  The moon sees the somebody I'd like to see.  God bless the moon and God bless me and God bless the somebody I'd like to see.  It seems to me that God above created you for me to love.  He picked you out from all the rest because He knew I'd love you best."