An answer for everything

Okay, I know 3 blog posts in one day is a bit excessive. Especially for me! However, I've had a bunch of thoughts rumbling around in my head, and they aren't coalescing into a single blog entry. So I'm just going to keep going until I'm done.

(And just as a forewarning, this one might be my last for the day, cause it's controversial, it's late, and I'm tired.)

If you know me, then you might think that my husband and I don't practice any religion at all. You would actually be right! However, if you really know me, then you would know that I actually have a deep desire to believe in God, but I have a lot of conflicting thoughts on faith and haven't actually settled this debate with myself yet. (And NO, this is not an invitation for you to convert me to your way of thinking on religion, no matter which way it might be.)

What has me thinking about this topic is adoption. Many people feel led to adopt by God. I have no problem with this.

During our adoption journey and even since bringing our son home late last summer, I've thought about many things that I either never would have thought about before or that I have a very different opinion about now.

Stay with me here... this is going somewhere, but I'm trying to get it worded just right.

What I'm getting at here is when people give answers or general responses to adoption questions, stories and situations as "It's God's way" or in some similar manner. It just seems to me that sometimes people of faith may shirk from answering the hard questions or dealing with hard situations by saying something along the lines of "this is the way God meant for it to happen."

It seems like a cop out. Honestly, I wish that I believed in God enough to use this response in some situations in my own life. I do not, though, and so I won't.