Debi and I recently spent a week with our children in Georgia. We had a great time with our children and grandchildren. As many of you know, EllaGrace joined our family several months ago, arriving from Ethiopia with a sippy-cup and the clothes on her back. A little orphan girl who had spent a few months abandoned on the streets of a large city was adopted into a loving family. She is now a Dantzler, just like her sisters. She has a mother and father whom she loves and who love her. She is family. There will not be a time when she is not a Dantzler.
As I was thinking about this one of the times EllaGrace and I were taking a lounge in the chair, I was reminded that this is our story. We were alone, trying to survive life the best we could, then one day through faith we were adopted into God's family. We will always be part of that family. We are part of a family that loves us and cares for us. Just like EllaGrace will always be a part of our family; through Christ we will always be a part of God's Family.
I am grinning as I think about that sweet face smiling at me; the one that reminds me the grace and mercy God shows us as undeserving as we are. What a family.
