Why do you do what you do?

A book that had a huge impact on me and many others is Half Time: Moving from Success to Significance by Bob Buford. Many of those people, including people I'm proud to know as friends, have rearranged their lives, plans and goals to do something significant with teh second half of their lives. Many, as they've sent kids to college and found their nests empty, have fostered and and/or adopted children. Often, because of experience, influence and resources gained, they're able to better provide for adopted children than they were their own children. Not only that, they position themselves as examples to follow.

November is National Adoption Awareness Month. There are incredible back stories behind every single adoption that occurs. Lives are changed. Destinies are altered.

Maybe you’re thinking about giving a child a forever home. There are a thousand reasons not to. If you make a list of pros and cons, the cons side of the list will have a higher quantity of reasons not to. But the pros side is where you’ll have reasons with quality - the greatest of those qualities is love.

We tell our own half-time adoption story here.