Every other week my blog will feature a reposted work. I had been a contributor on two different sites that have since closed or no longer include blogs. I will be reposting pieces that had originally been featured on one of these two sites.
This was originally posted October 06, 2011
About a year ago I wrote a reflection about trusting God in
the process of adopting our son, Isaiah, from India. I borrowed Donald Miller’s comparison of a
father to a Dragon which he made in his book To Own a Dragon and applied
it to a son. For me a son seemed just as
unattainable as a father was to Miller, as unattainable as a dragon. I borrowed from Ursula Le Guin’s mythology of
dragons found in her Earthsea Cycle to illustrate how special and magnificent my
son was. I concluded by affirming the
faithfulness of God in keeping his promise to deliver Isaiah to my wife and
me. I referred to God as The Giver of
Dragons.
Soon after that writing administrative pieces fell into
place and we flew to India to meet our Dragon.
A little under a year ago we brought home the dragon we got.
