Family Fellowship
Emotions were high recently when survivor-children from the Haitian earthquake, and whose adoption procedure received urgent attention, arrived in Ottawa, Canada (and perhaps, the same experience in all the nations where adoptive parents are waiting for their children). More than receiving relief materials, these kids will be introduced into the care and comfort of new parents, not as object of mercy, but as a member of the same family. Children care not for essential things of life (except when parents are deficient), because those are not their responsibilities. Most likely, children are concerned about how to be like their parents. Likewise, and in God's family, children cultivate the conduct and character of God through intimacy. Even in the world that is heavily burdened with needs, God's heralds can retain the identity of Son-ship. Losing this identity can spell doom, and makes life unbearable. So while the world cares for its own, children of God should demand family fel...