This is my, Daniel Cook, first attempt to blog. My grammar is probably bad, but you will get the point.
Today Abby would not let me nap; she said I have done that too much the past few days. So instead we watched the movie The Ultimate Gift. Here is my brief overview of the movie. A rich, billionaire grandfather dies and leaves his inheritance to his family. His grandson must do different task before he is given the ultimate gift. So he goes through a few tasks learning about work, money, friendship, laughter, and a few other things in life. He meets a kid who has leukemia and she ends up benefiting from a few of his task.
Through some of the task this guy helps out this girl and her mother. It gave me perspective of how a child in a worst-case scenario views life and how I sometimes view life. I know this was a movie but through this movie I saw some things that related to the adoption. The family had medical bills that were going unpaid, but was willing to let everything go for the treatment of the child. The girl made a Christmas wish and only wished to be around people who loved her and 90 percent of the wish was for her mom to be happy. A pictured was painted throughout the movie on the way we value money. The family was so worried with monetary values they missed the blessings of a family and true happiness.
Today God opened my heart and mind to see that a price tag cannot be put on the opportunity to impact a life in this magnitude. Will I have to sacrifice “stuff” for this to happen? Yes! Will I have to wonder where some money will come from? Yes! Are the money, sacrifice, and time worth giving a child a life with a family that loves him, who will be there with him through the ups and downs of life, and a family that will introduce him to a life of surrendering to Christ? Absolutely.
When God placed the call to children’s ministry on my life a remember a phrase that has been in the back of my mind since then. The phrase was, “I was going to be a father to the fatherless.” I also had a dream of opening and running an orphanage. As we started with this process this phrase came to mind and I believe that this is God leading me to complete something he began in me 10 years ago, to be a father to the fatherless. Our child is worth me not eating out lunches with the staff, cutting back on non-essential bills, and making sacrifices throughout the process. Why you may ask, because this life is more important than my stuff and me. The ultimate gift I can give is not measured with money, but by providing a life of meaning, hope, and love. Through this process a child will gain a family, know what it means to love and be loved, but most importantly will be raised in a Christian home and learn what it means to give his life to Christ. He will know a Christ who has shown us what it means to make personal scarifies to give someone a new life. God is not asking me to sacrifice my life, but I will have to let go some of my stuff for this to happen. What a small task to make such a huge impact.
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