As we look towards a Mother/Daughter Banquet at our church, and I read about the speaker that is to bring a testimony of her own mother pulling her from a fire, surviving after 60 + surgeries, I can't help but think of our adoption story. It is equally amazing to me to think of just what adoptive families go through from day to day as we continually pull our daughters and sons out of fire after fire. From the fires of deprivation and rejection, to dealing with loss and special needs, acceptance by peers and others, to the continual picking up of the broken pieces; each day brings a different type of fire with different wounds and 'surgeries' the Lord performs on our hearts. Although it is a great tragedy, having gone through physical pain of a fire, we cannot begin to imagine the hidden scars of our own sons and daughters. I am thankful for the Great Physician that heals us from all our diseases, both physical and emotional.
