Last day in Kunming!

This morning we got up early and met our guide so we could go to Benjamin’s Finding Spot.  We have been able to do this with 4 or our 5 Chinese born children.  It is always an emotional experience to be able to stand on or near the place your child was left.  I can’t imagine what a birth family feels or thinks as they choose the place they will leave their child.  And I certainly don’t want to judge their motives or intent in doing this.  I am grateful that each of our children were placed in a very public place which was likely motivated by a desire for them to be found and taken to a safe place.  If the birth parents were not driven by some sense of love and concern for the child, they would not choose such a public place, where they could suffer the affects of child abandonment, which is a crime in China.  Benjamin’s finding spot was in or near a tunnel.  His medical file was unclear as to the exact spot he was left, but it was a very busy tunnel in an area where migrant farmers live. 

With both our new sons, and our youngest daughter, their special need, limb difference, would have made it difficult for their birth families to have kept him due to prejudices towards visible differences, like their hands and feet.  We know in American that hands and feet do not make a person, and that they will have as many rights and opportunities as anyone else. And sadly prejudices exists in the U.S. too.  But we hope and pray that a loving family will be able to help them to overcome and to become all that they were made to be. So that nothing will hold them back from all that God has called them to be or equipped them to do.  So, we say to our new sons, you are fearfully and wonderfully made, perfect in everyway, and we could not love you any more if you had 10 fingers and 10 toes.  We love you just the way you are.