Our youngest daughter, whom we had adopted, had severely bowed legs. As she grew, she was able to walk, but her legs were not normal in appearance. It seemed the trouble was in the way her bones were joined together. I knew I needed to spiritualize my thought, to perceive her real identity, which is entirely spiritual and perfectly formed.
The Bible has always been a guide in our family, and I was very comforted when I found these verses in Ephesians, assuring us that we, "speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom the wholebody fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love" (Eph. 4:15, 16).
In another context, one of the definitions for the word adopt includes the concept "to accept," and I found it helpful to think about this in terms of our adoption of our daughter. It had been easy to accept our daughter, but we would never accept the untrue belief that she was not made correctly. When we had adopted her, we had accepted her in all her real, spiritual perfection, and had accepted nothing else.
