90 Days for Noelle - Day 18

I have been taking some of our required classes online during my lunch break. I just completed the first class 'The Journey of Attachment'. It explains the difficulties involved in adopting a child who has issues with attachment. This is very common in international adoption because many of these children come from orphanages. They are commonly behind in their development both physically and emotionally because they have not received the personal affection and attention that most children  receive from day one. I find this interesting and very sad. It takes some time for them to learn to depend on their adoptive parents because they don't understand the concept of mom & dad. They have mostly had to depend on themselves. Even if they have been fed and "taken care of" in a good orphanage, they are still often behind in their development because they are lacking the love of a parent. Even infants only a few months old show signs of attachment disorders. These babies struggle from lack of LOVE. You think that babies don't really know anything, which on the most part is true. Then why does the lack of love matter as long as their needs are met? The answer is that they were created by the Creator who is LOVE. We are all created to love and to be loved. These babies inherently have the need to be loved. Without it, they will always struggle and possibly eventually die. Our God loves us. Each and every one of us, but we are doomed to perish unless we accept his love and return that love to him. We are all orphans lying in a lonely crib, desiring the love of a father. When we cry out to Him, He comes running to not only supply our need but to love on us. We are just like Noelle. Jessica and I love her and she does not know who we are or that we exist. God our father loves us even more and yet some of us act as if he is not there. If only we would cry out from our cribs....

Matthew 7:7-8

    ⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

God, let us never forget who we are and who You are. You are our father that we love and we cry out to You to feel Your love. We pray that Noelle feels your love from her first day on this Earth until her last. We ask you keep her safe and healthy, that there will not be any attachment disorders or any other problems for that matter. You are the God of all and can do all things. In Your name we pray. Amen.