Been thinking a lot about a post that I published a few weeks ago. The one about the splash park. Anyway, it just so happens that a lot of our churches sermons lately have been on suffering and singing the Lord's song through it.
So, I've resolved to try and do a better job at this. Yes, Adelaide and our family have struggles, and I will continue to write about them because I feel like it's a way for me to express my feelings about them, however, I don't want it to be a means for people to look at us and feel sorry for us. You shouldn't.
I've had trouble putting into words lately my feelings about this. Because I don't want to offend anyone. I'm SO grateful that we have people praying for us, we have incredible people in our lives that Love Adelaide and that I know pray for her and our family daily. And I know many of you see my post and pray that things like that wouldn't happen to little girls like her and that people would accept her and that she wouldn't have to deal with these hardships but she does. She always will. We live in a fallen world and it's mean and sinful. Life's hard and I don't feel like we should completely protect her from that.
I feel that just feeling sorry for us and praying that others around us change will not solve a problem. There will always be those people out there. So instead pray that Adelaide would be changed.
My friend, Valerie and I had coffee today and were discussing this and something she said put things into great perspective. It's like a married couple that's been together for 60 years. You experience a lot together, good and bad and that brings you into a closer relationship with each other. There aren't many relationships closer then that. You are truly intimate.
That's our prayer for Adelaide, that she will find Christ early, so that in those hard times, and there will be many, she will have the hope that we do for her. That one day she will be made new. And that those hard times will lead her to a more intimate relationship with her Lord.
Yes, we pray that Adelaide will have great people in her life, that she'll find a spouse that will love her completely and that we will learn to parent her well through her trials but we don't pray away the trials. Those times only draw us closer to Christ; just like the trials in our own lives.
