When I first considered adoption, I wondered, “Could I love someone else’s child the way I love my own?”

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Then we met Ruth, who came to Maine for physical therapy.

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At eighteen-months-old, she was too weak to lift her head due to cerebral palsy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For all the times I had imagined adopting, I had never imagined adopting a child like this.

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Yet, Ruth needed a home and, we had one.

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So, we adopted her.

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We were privileged to love and care for Ruth for six years.

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Then God brought her home.

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Was love enough?

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You decide.

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“And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me,'” Matthew 25:40.