Standing Our Ground

I have kept my blinders on very tightly and on purpose regarding the people and reaction surrounding Veronica's case. After being torn apart as a person by people associated with the couples PR campaign, I returned to the situation with one focus and one purpose, advocating for Veronica.  

With litigation over, I am finally looking around the last week with blinders off and I am amazed at the people, the supporters, the pages, the change being affected by our Little Star. 

As an adoptee with a journey eerily similar to Veronica's, I know too well the heartache she will endure in the future. The abandonment by her natural family she will hear about and once she learns the truth, the betrayal she will feel towards her adoptive family. It is a no win situation for her unless all the adults admit their part and their mistakes  and work together to raise her equally. I am afraid the last part of that statement is going to be the greatest challenge. The parties involved have so much hurt that will surely lead to resentment. It will likely require intervention like therapy or a recovery program. I pray for them all to find a way to do right by Veronica. 

As far as the supporters, I am grateful to see so many working to reform adoption and to strengthen ICWA. The suggestion of a Universal Child Welfare Act is a genius idea. Our children have rights and we need to recognize them. We also need to recognize the reality of what is going on in the adoption industry. 

In order for an adoption to occur, a separation of a child from their family has to happen first. This is comparable to an organ transplant. A life can be saved but a life has to be lost. If your child needs a new heart, you can pray they recieve a new heart and be humbly grateful if it happens but is it okay to go around asking for someone else's  child to die? Do you wish another family pain? Of course not, that would be absurd! 

So, why are people soliciting adoption? Why hope to break up a family to create one? If a child needs a home, then you can be humbly grateful to provide one. But just as we don't go killing others to grab their organs, we shouldn't destroy families to transplant these children. It is tragic. 

So to all these people, all these pages, I hope you are able to help open the hearts of our society and break into an industry that seems to operate without compassion. The purpose of adoption seems to be lost. It's time to find our footing, stand our ground and restore our families. 

But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children--Psalm 103:17

A Grateful Believer in Jesus Christ, 

Johnna