I've been reading a couple of blogs from Compassion's Kenya trip this month. I had been thinking about sponsoring a child for the last few months, so this was one of those Jesus things, where the timing works out. The stories are funny and inspiring and heartbreaking all at the same time. So today we signed up to sponsor a little 6 year old boy in Kenya. I'm so excited! I get to write to him and send pictures. He likes soccer! I may never meet this little guy, but I'm so excited to get to know him and to help him and his family. Lately I have really been feeling an urge to stop thinking about my small world and all my material possessions, and to help people. I think it must be from thinking through the whole adoption thing. We had a speaker at the Adopting for Life conference talk about James 1:27, and I feel so convicted by that:
27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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