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OFF SCREEN: I found myself
at 38 years old...
single and having wanted to get married.
I was in Romania on a kind of mission trip and I was holding
this little six-day-old...
baby that they didn't expect to live.
And I heard the Lord just say to me, "I father the fatherless.
How about you start mothering the motherless?"
And then the Lord just said, "I'm not waiting for your life
to get convenient.
I say you're convenient now."
Less than a year later, I ended up adopting domestically,
from Jacksonville, Florida.
My son was born there and it just changed everything
about my life.
I call him, I think the greatest song I ever wrote,
because nothing really that I've ever done is in comparison
to that decision...
and how that decision really changed my life in every way,
dramatically.
In our court system, you can actually disown your biological
children in a court of law.
But because I've adopted my son, the court system here
would never allow me to ever disown him.
And I had to raise my right hand and then swear
before a judge...
that I understood that the law was that if I wanted to
give him back,
by law I could never revoke my right to be his mother.
And I thought, "Wow, that's pretty amazing."
That's pretty powerful when you think in Scripture when God says
that He's adopted us...
as His children, that really what He's saying is that...
"He can't revoke His right to be our Father."
I did for my son, what God did for me.
And I can identify that even as someone who's been orphaned by
natural parents...
and so being Justice's mother, my son's name is "Justice,"
being his mom has actually opened up this room of
understanding God's identity...
like I have never in my life understood it before.
(singing) In love with Justice.