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Psalm chapter 139, verse 14.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works.

My soul knows it very well.

So, in a way that I didn't see coming, I don't think my wife, Heather saw

coming, in fact, I know she didn't see it coming. None of us in our family saw it coming.

God led us after four children to adopt number five and specifically to pursue international adoption and to adopt

number five from China. Now, for months and months, we didn't know if this child would be a boy or a

girl or how young or old they might be. And so we kind of just had this child out.

You know, we were praying for this child and we didn't want to keep calling this child like it

or, you know, this child we're going to adopt. It just felt kind of clunky as we were praying.

So we came up with, we talked about it as a family, we said, okay, what can we name this child?

We don't know if it's going to be a boy or girl. What can we name this child?

And the name we came up with was wonderfully made because we knew for sure, boy or girl, age, any other factors that there might be,

that this child is wonderfully made by God. And so, yeah, for months, we've just been praying for

wonderfully made. And then we got a, then we got a picture and a

face. And we've given that child another name, besides wonderfully made, Jeremiah Daniel, J.D.

And I share that just because I think this truth is revolutionary in so many ways.

And I just want to apply it not just to this child that we are adopting, but to your life.

You just let this soak in. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by God himself.

Like this means you have divine dignity. You're made in the image of God.

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