"Beautiful Things"

"Beautiful Things" was the title to one of the songs we sang this morning in church.  I have also been watching way more "gotcha day" videos than I should and this song has made its appearance in quite a few of them.  Here are the lyrics to the song:

 "Beautiful Things"

All this pain
I wonder if I’ll ever find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make me new, You are making me new
You make me new, You are making me new

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

As I sang the words to that song this morning, I immediately thought of adoption and all the videos I had watched in the last couple of days.  How those little lives will be changed in a huge way.  "You make me new, You are making me new"....these words hit me this morning....how in a few months we will receive a picture of a little boy or girl who's life will be forever changed...who's life will be made "new" in several ways....but what struck me even more was that I feel like this journey of adoption is more for me being "made new" than it is for this child.  He is teaching, and pruning, and shaping me....he is making me new.  It's a constant changing and making me "newer", than I was before.  I hope that this experience and the things that I have learned and am learning will be poured out in the lives of my kids and this child I have yet to meet.  That they will want God to be continually making them new....continually making them more like him, even if it is hard and painful.  It's out of pain, suffering and sacrifice that he makes something beautiful!