Red, Yellow, Black and White...All are Precious in His Sight!

Today, after church, we went out to lunch with our small group.  Our restaurant had a big playground out back and I saw that our girls quickly made friends with a family of three african american little girls.  I knew that they probably zoned right in on them and thought..."this will be like playing with our new little sister!" 

sidenote - There has been alot of "buzz" around our house about skin color, whose is lightest and whose is darkest and that the new baby will definitely have the darkest skin.  And, about hair color and texture, and that the new baby will have really curly hair.  (The girls are already excited about braiding our new babies hair)

Back to the restaurant - Pretty soon Chloe came in and told me that she and Lydia had made friends with a family and the baby sister had the cutest hair and Clo wished that she could braid it!  After lunch, the kids all drove home with me.  As soon as we got in the car, Levi says, "mom I don't want you to think I am racist or anything, but I am wondering why we are adopting a Haitian baby...I mean, why can't we just get a white baby?"  (where is Rick when I need him!) Well, I said......(long pause...prayer...Lord, help me to answer this question) "That is a great quesion Levi....the only way I know how to answer is to tell you that mom and dad know without a doubt that God has called us to adopt from Haiti and there are no white babies in Haiti, and you know, God loves all of us no matter what color of skin we have and we will love our baby, no matter what color of skin she has."  Long pause...then Levi says, "well mom, I am just saying that if I had black skin, I would never want to be adopted into a white family, it would just feel weird."  Long pause...."well, Levi, what you are talking about is so important and this is stuff that we need to be really open about...I am sure that kids will ask you why you have a sister with dark skin and she may get asked why everyone in her family has white skin...thank goodness we live in Katy, and there are people from all different nationalities living here.  We see people with all different skin types, hair types, facial features every single day.  Dad and I can help prepare you for questions that kids may ask, but the most important thing to remember is that God created us all and we are all to love one another."

I could not even believe that the girls had no input on the whole conversation!  But, as we are driving home, I started stressing out because our social worker was coming to the house in less an hour to do our homestudy.  I knew that she would do individual interviews with each of the kids and I was praying, praying, praying, okay...begging, begging, begging that she would not ask Levi how he felt about having an african american sister.  Thank goodness, the homestudy went well and I think we will pass!

Now, of course, I cannot get the Sunday School sing-song out of my head.  Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in HIS sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world!