Happy Memorial Day to everyone listening.

The Aspasturjon Podcast continues to roll along and for the next few days we're going

to talk about adoption.

Pastor John, your 18-year-old daughter, Talatha, recently graduated from high school, a

momentous occasion you've written about and blogged about recently at the Desiring God

blog.

At this stage in her life and at this stage in your life, do you have any reflections

about her story and about adoption in general?

Yeah, I want to take this opportunity, Tony, to encourage again those who are considering

adoption or even have already adopted and might be running into difficulties.

Remember, I was 50 years old when we adopted Talatha.

She was 8 weeks old.

She's born in Georgia.

We were living in Minneapolis.

She was our only daughter.

We raised four sons, only adopted child, only African American child, and it was a closed

adoption.

We don't have any idea who her mother or her father are.

And we would be totally fine if Talatha wanted to know who they are, but I just mentioned

those facts to show that the challenges we were facing, they felt very significant to me.

And the reason I feel like I want to encourage folks is not just because we overcame some

of those obstacles like being 50 years old, but because the longer and the wider the

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