Preface
I've been noticing a trend on my Facebook feed - people saying something they are grateful for everyday of the month in November (I'm in-visioning until Thanksgiving!), so since I'm a little late on that train my inspiration this morning is to share something for every letter of the alphabet that I am thankful for until Thanksgiving (which is in 9 nine days so 3 or 4 a day - I don't know I don't do math!!!) so here we go. My goal in doing this is to know myself better and to think outside the box (wish me luck!) ;)
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ransitive verb
1
: to take by choice into a relationship; especially : to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child
2
: to take up and practice or use <adopted a moderate tone>
3
: to accept formally and put into effect <adopt a constitutional amendment>
4
: to choose (a textbook) for required study in a course
5
: to sponsor the care and maintenance of <adopt a highway>
intransitive verb
: to adopt a child
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— adopt·abil·i·ty noun
— adopt·able adjective
— adopt·er noun
I am thankful for ADOPTION, first to be adopted into the family of the House of Israel. Second to be able to have in my lifetime see miracles thru the acts of adoption. There is of course the story of JUNO and the story of Moses. There is those stories of Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, The little Princess, Oliver Twist and one of my favs Matilda! 
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Car
I have seen examples of this working and examples of it not, but the stats lay out like this as I see it...
1 Kings 3:16-28
16 ¶Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son isthe dead, and my son is the living.
25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
It is in my opinion, a true act of love to want the best for your child. And Only a Mother knows. I honor those who both give and receive in the act of Adoption.
here's a couple of links for reference
http://sethadamsmith.com/2012/11/01/adoption-month/
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