You Are Not An Accident
Now this is a very important chapter to me because I am adopted and in the past I had always felt like I was a mistake, unworthy, less than perfect...unlovable and flawed. But this chapter states that I am perfectly made by God. My parents may have been inconsiderate or as the book states illegitimate.Here's a quote:
You are not an accident.
Your birth was no mistake, an your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did...You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, "The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me."
God prescribed every single detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the color of your skin, your hair, and every other feature. He custom made your body just the way he wanted it. He also determined the natural talents you would possess and the uniqueness of your personality.
Now I used to be plagued by the ideas and feeling I had about who I was and why I was given up until I met my birth mother. I have 3 older brothers, David, Raymond and George. I look just like my mother. It was so life changing to have met her and them. But it was not to be. She cut off all contact with me and rejected me again. But because I had met her I now knew that it was her selfishness and not my adoption and consequent feelings about being unworthy dissipated and I was able to move on past that tragedy and live my life from a different perspective. It was no longer MY fault that I was given away. I was worthy and deserving of love. What an eye opener.
But this chapter was life changing too. How wonderful it is to find out that God designed every feature about me with purpose. How exciting!
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