{"id":2576,"date":"2007-08-08T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:58:12","slug":"why-havent-you-adopted-an-orphan-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/why-havent-you-adopted-an-orphan-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Haven&#8217;t You Adopted an Orphan Child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been torn by the knowledge that there are thousands of orphaned or abandoned children desperate to be welcomed into a family like mine and our reasons for &#8220;passing by on the other side&#8221; when we see the &#8220;least of these.&#8221;  <!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/KidsfromAdoptable.orgAugust2007_01.jpg' align=\"left\" size=\"800\" alt='Kids waiting to be adopted right now.' \/><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The least of these have names.  The nine of them pictured above are Amzi, Aniki, Ashley, Cassandra, Demarcus, Heaven, Montrell &#038; Donnell, and Norman.  Aniki and Heaven are siblings.  All of them have been orphaned or abandoned and are waiting for permanent families.  Given the extent of their needs, what are the morally acceptable reasons for our passing these kids by as we can go about our normal routine?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in what we, Mormons and aspiring Christians, think we would say to Christ should he ask why we didn&#8217;t meet these kids&#8217; needs.   How much should they suffer, how long should they wait, before we would act?   How much time and energy can we spend on mundane pursuits and still claim we don&#8217;t act because of a need for &#8220;balance&#8221; or because we coudn&#8217;t run faster than we had strength?  Which of our pursuits can morally withstand the gravitational pull of children in need of family? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been torn by the knowledge that there are thousands of orphaned or abandoned children desperate to be welcomed into a family like mine and our reasons for &#8220;passing by on the other side&#8221; when we see the &#8220;least of these.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-mormon-life","category-parenting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}