...that we are unable to offer financial assistance for this adoption."
Our first grant rejection. It is hard not to take it personally. Or to be bitter. Especially since so many grants are have limiting qualifications such as specifying "Christian" families. Although we are a Christian family, we are also a Catholic family. But to many of these organizations you can't be their type of Christian if you are Catholic.
Does any of this really matter when you are talking about an orphaned child? We are willing to open our hearts and our home to an orphan. We are willing to become financially and emotionally responsible for this child for the rest of our lives. I would like to ask these orphaned children if these labels matter to them.
So, as I said, our first rejection. And it is hard not to take it personally or to be bitter. It is only the first, and I am sure there will be other rejections. Our faith in God will provide us with our adopted daughter. And it may not be next year or the year after. It won't be on our terms at all. It will be on His terms. And how can one take that personally?
