Orphan Care- A New Language

Written by Brooke Miller

FHF Regional Director in Southern California
brooke@finallyhomefoundation.net

Speaking the language of loving the Fatherless feels like the most difficult and most natural language to learn. Here’s what I mean: “speaking orphan care” can require the most out of you and be brutally difficult. But also, every person I meet who “speaks orphan care” also speaks of learning about their deepest, truest selves, their most real selves, and the God who loves them.

I think it’s because God Himself speaks orphan care as His first language. So what starts as a ‘foreign language’ to us quickly becomes more and more natural as we draw closer to the Father-Heart of God. He’s the only one who is truly fluent.

I think God is teaching His children this language. It’s sweeping nation after nation. It’s an ancient message filling ancient texts, speaking an ancient truth, and yet revealing itself in new ways here and now.

See, in the deepest mysteries of Scripture is the fact that we are all adoptees. Orphans called into the family of God. God is the first adoptive Father, with only one firstborn Son (Jesus), with whom we are called ‘equal heirs’. The parallels are breathtaking – beginning with the fact that an Adoptive Father’s quest starts long before the adopted child is aware of Him.

All our words and works within Orphan Care are merely echoes of He who spoke it first.

And so as we practice, as we speak, as we learn the nuances of this new language and find refreshment among those who speak it too, it’s like finding a part of your heritage.