Adoption is a genre of law (power and control) in that individuals and institutions sharply determine and limit what’s possible within our stories and lived experiences, as if our journeys were created to picture and fulfill society’s “knowledge” and anticipation. There’s an appetite that the genre intends for adoptees to satisfy. The good news is that we, as Christians, serve a King whose pleasure it was to abolish the law and set captives free. Adoptees aren’t here to fulfill someone else’s genre convention. Through narrative incarnation and resurrection, something more truthful can be fulfilled. There’s hope especially for the adoptee reaching out from under the violence of fiction to feel the warmth of light on her face again.
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Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC 