As I was reading a Christmas devotional about Christ coming to redeem those under the law through our adoption (Galatians 4), I was struck by the other faith in adoption.

For much of our adoption story, we have focused on one side of it – ours.  We were the ones who felt called.  We saved and raised money.  We left home to go to a foreign place.  We struggled.  We wrestled. We believed.  We loved.  We pursued. We fought. We won.  We adopted our daughters.  It was the biggest test of our faith that we have ever experienced, and our lives will literally never be the same.   It’s easy for us to talk about our faith in our adoption process, but in one sense that didn’t even matter.

On the other side of our story are two sisters who had lived in an institution for the better part of…