(a 3 minute read) I met Jason in a social gathering, a 22 year old charming young man. John and Sue, his parents, adopted him as a baby. Jason knew he was adopted at a very young age, as his parents decided early on that this was the best way to go. Jason expressed how great Sue and John have and continue to be the best parents ever. To elaborate on the ‘best ever’, he described his parents as loving not only by saying it to him, but by fully demonstrating their love to him in all sorts of action, continual and never ending.

I asked Jason if it was his parent’s dedication and love that never triggered him to look for his biological parents. The puzzled look on his face warned me that I made the wrong assumption, and his words, “Not sure why you assume that I did not look for them?” confirmed my blunder.

Jason carried on as if used to such an exchange. “Many assume that an adopted child should just be grateful that the universe dealt him/her a good living at a good home with good parents. There is something within an adopted child yearning to know the ‘how come’ the ‘why’ and the ‘why not’.” Jason proceeded to explain that of course the child/the man/the woman are indeed very grateful to the adoptive parents, thankful that they picked them, elated that they turned out to be such loving and giving parents. But and that’s a big but, the gratefulness does not annihilate the yearning.

Jason expounded, “So let me make it simple. If you ask me if I would rather have John and Sue as my adoptive parents OR have them as my biological parents who raised me? I would emphatically and undoubtedly answer you; ‘As my biological parents’.”

Jason looked piercingly straight into my eyes and asked, “Do you get what I am saying.”

So this is now me talking to you, the reader; for some reason many want you and me to believe that God has adopted us as his children, that God chose you and me……………. Why settle for adopted when you are the biological daughter and son!?!?!? Why bring in the yearning when you have the delight of the knowledge!?!?!?

The only thing the teaching of being adopted does, is that it separates you from YOUR Father. They claim that the sin is what separates you. Yet, the sin is forgiven every time, every freaking time it is forgiven…… Therefore and therefore, there is no separation………. God created you and me and continues to create every child that comes into this world. From the ‘I know the plans’ to ‘Woven in the womb’ to ‘Know every hair on your head’, you know where I am coming from.

I am, You are and We are his daughters and sons with no ifs ands or buts. End of story.

Thank you my Father, my Creator and my God for being the most awesome and loving Father ever, and maybe just maybe as I continue to accept the knowledge that You and Only You are my Father and my Parent, maybe I would start living my life in ways to honor and respect you. Amen.