New Film Premiere – I Like Adoption. from ILikeGiving.com on Vimeo.
Yesterday a dear friend linked to this video on facebook. I hope you’ll take the six minutes to watch this.
Because this story? It’s a story of beauty rabble rousers. My heart ripped when the mama of this beautiful family calls us victims of our culture because we believe that beauty means being perfect and being the same. Because it is true.
All my life I’ve disbelieved beauty in my frame and I’ve struggled to find beauty in my home and my disappointments. But what if all the things I thought disqualified me are the very building blocks of beauty in my life?
What if, like this family’s son, we could put quotation marks around the things that we believe have made life mis-formed so that we can believe we-our lives-are well-formed? And what if our lives spoke that beautiful truth over others, not just words but really lived out?
Let’s call a lie a lie. Beauty is not defined by this world, this culture. Let’s be beauty rabble rousers.
I just watched it twice with N & C. Oh my, that was good.
Wonderful family! What it is all about…thank you Lord, for people like this couple.
Wow! Beautiful and sad and glorious, if that is possible! Thank you for sharing!
That was awesome. So awesome. What kind of love is that? What a family, whoa. Now I get to hug my own adopted boy of our own. Oh the love.
oh, friend! what blessing to read this. i know you hugged him tight, tight.
i feel the need to shout this, AMEN.
i loved that video, too. and it’s encouraging to know that it’s inspiring change. praise jesus.
grateful for you, ellen dear!
Beautiful and moving stuff. What I just watched in that film IS beauty. Beauty personified in that family. We need to see more of this. Much more.
Thanks for sharing x
yep. more and more of this kind of stuff.
Brought me to tears. Man, I’m all choked up now. I watched with my 11 year-old daughter. Very powerful. Beautiful people with amazing children. A very blessed family.
~FringeGirl