The Story of Ouseman One-Eye Diggs
This won’t be a long article, because I’m going to send you somewhere else, and there will be enough there to read to keep you occupied for a while.
As I said last week, we have adopted twice. We adopted two little boys from Liberia. Jumoke was 4 and Solomon was 7 when they came to live with us.
Solomon’s adoption is about as perfect as an adoption can be. He still remembers and loves his birth mother. He has her photograph framed and hanging above his bed.
But Solomon also loves his father and myself, his adoptive parents, with all of his heart.
He has learned that he can love all three of us without betraying any, and there is such freedom for him in being able to love that way.
And Dad and Mom? We love him so much that we can’t imagine our lives without him. He is a perfect Souza, fits perfectly into an empty space that was named “Solomon” long before we ever heard of him.
Not all adoptions are as perfect as this one, as the story of our failed adoption will tell. Not all children who are adopted love their adoptive parents with such freedom, nor do all adoptive parents love their adopted child so much that they wonder where they misplaced the photos of Mom when she was pregnant with him.
But God has given us the great gift of seeing a child not born to us so entirely grafted into our family that we can’t remember not having him nor can we remember a day when we didn’t know him somewhere in the depths of our hearts.
We have the incredible gift of seeing, knowing, living, and understanding God’s complete adoption and grafting of the Gentiles onto His heart…and the results when we receive His adoption completely.
You can read Solomon’s story here, or go to my blog, Eleven Oreos, and click on the title, The Story Of Ouseman One-Eye Diggs, on the sidebar.
Shurleen is a homeschooling mom of 8 and Nonnie of 3 in the Pacific Northwest. Shurleen and her husband, Tim, adopted two boys from Liberia to add to their good sized birth family. The family has been priviliged to have experienced both the best and the worst in their adoptions. You can read her blog at Eleven Oreos.
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