#option

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#new-birth #family

And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them—until they too can all go home. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection. ↗

— Jana Wolff

#friendship

The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention. ↗

— Jaachynma Agu N.E.

#good-home #higher-life #inspirational #love #marriage

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him. ↗

— Martha McKiever

#dog-adoption #friends #inspirational #therapy-dogs #inspirational

What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#life

Peter Friedrich, wer bin ich? Peter Frederick, who am I? German or American? The answer was neither and both. I had German blood but an American mentality. This trip allowed me to understand that a man can make his home where ever he chooses. If I wanted, I could live happily in America. My heart fought and pleaded, saying it wasn't true, that I was German, and only in Germany would I be content. In one of the few times in my life, intellect overruled emotion. Germany wasn't the key to my happiness. I couldn't deny what I had experienced, and my last hope for a key to the castle door died. International adoption destroyed the connection to my heritage. It is only conjuncture to guess how my life might have turned out under different circumstances, but there is one certainty: If I had remained in the orphanage or had been adopted by German parents, I never would have suffered the loss of my national identity. If I had to be adopted by Americans, then they should have been of German descent. ↗

— Peter Dodds

#inspirational-life #home

[...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#options #second-chances #love

Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters. ↗

— Yvonne Woon

#hurting #options #beauty

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#laughter #options #laugh