Adopted

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• ..."For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb...My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them." (Psalm 139:13,15,16)
  
  I have been adopted, several times over. Let me explain.
  From infancy, I was adopted into the Charles and Daisy Price home. I was an "only child" in this family.
  When I was 18 years old, my Mom died, rather suddenly. I moved into the home of dear church friends, closer to where I intended to go to college. They took me in, as a daughter.
  Soon afterwards, I married Howard Ainsworth, and became a daughter in the Ainsworth family.
  My adoptive father remarried Norma, thus giving me another mother to love.
  As Howard and I searched for Truth, God provided Paul and Mary Landis, spiritual parents to mentor us.
  When I was 33 years old, I met my birth mother for the first time. We enjoy a close relationship to this day. I found out that I even have a brother and a sister.
  It is an understatement to say how very blessed I feel with all these "adoptions". As precious as each of these earthly relationships have been, the greatest blessing is to be called a daughter of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
  
  "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ..." (Romans 8:14-17)