#5: ARE YOU CRAZY?!

We want to thank all of our family, friends, and acquaintances for taking an interest in our lives, and for asking some really good questions. We think good questions deserve good explanations. These weeks we are posting the top 10 questions you are asking and our responses. Feel free to message us questions you may have. They may just make the top 10 :)


QUESTION #5: ARE YOU CRAZY?!!!

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Okay, this is more of a rhetorical question that even the most well-intended person has asked us regarding adding to our family exponentially through adoption. It's meant in fun, sort of; but really communicates that we may be biting off more than we can chew, blind to the hazards ahead, and certainly not a Canadian normal. And they are right to some degree on all three points, which has lead us to one simple conclusion: we really need God. But so do you. And the next person, and the next. We need God. Sometimes it takes God calling us into crazy love to recognize this more deeply.

Some have said that we should rather have more kids "of our own" (meaning biological) because they "turn out so cute" as biracial children in our image. One person consoled us that God promises in Scripture to take care of the fatherless and that we should not take it upon ourselves and potentially disrupt our "perfect family". While I smiled and willingly accepted the "crazy" title, inwardly my convictions just were fortified yet to a deeper level, not only theologically, but also the fact that already adding Isinino to our family has simply made it more perfect (not the perfectionist OCD perfect, but the kind that makes things more complete, fulfilled, purposeful, albeit flawed and in need of grace).

So are we crazy?! In short, the answer is a resounding 'yes'. 
- We are crazy passionate for children to belong in families.
- We are crazy excited for who else God will bring into our family.
- We are crazy stirred by injustice and need for changes on micro and macro levels.
- We are crazy moved to do something about it.
- We are crazy. Just plain crazy. In the uninhibited way we express joy in the home.
- We are crazy thrilled to support, encourage, equip others in their journey to discover how they can make a difference.  

"Normal" is just an allusion that leads to disillusionment. Call us crazy, we are not offended. It's our new normal. ;-o  :)