Frank Peretti: The Man and the Monster

Frank Peretti: The Man and the Monster
"He made you he knows what you're good at. He knows what you can do and what you can become. Trust Him. Love Him. He'll always love you back and He'll carry you as a father carries his child."

Peretti speaks about his childhood. For most of his childhood he felt like a monster: having a facial deformity and speech issues. How God used a "monster" for His ministry!

As you are following after God's call to adopt, allow Him to speak to your heart and remove some of your thoughts on "monsters" too.

There are many waiting children that have special needs and many of them are cosmetic or surgically correctable. In some countries things like birthmarks or facial deformities are enough to deem a child "monstrous" or unadoptable. Centuries of culture conforming on ideas of beauty bringing blessing and differences or scars bringing curses.

Yet, there is One that bore the scars. Made blame and "monster" for me and all of us. Perfection willingly made into deformity, scars through which we are all made beautiful and are blessed.

How is He calling you to define beauty, blessing, scars or "monsters"?

If He asks you to adopt a child that looks radically different, by world culture or by your own standards, how do you respond? When?

Do you simply deem a "monster" and disobey or do you yield and allow Him to guide your steps? Especially if it is towards a radical adoption?

“All at once came the thought – If you are simply obeying the LORD, all the responsibility will rest on Him, not on you! What a relief!! Well, I cried to God – You shall be responsible for them, and for me too!” J. Hudson Taylor