Emphasis Preaching Journal

For a number of years, the adopted son lived gratefully in the home of a family where he shared the love of the mother and father and two sisters and another brother. All of the legal papers clearly identified him as adopted and as a legal half-brother to his sisters and brother. They ate at the same table, and he shared the same bedroom with his half- brother. They all went to the same grade school and high school. On many occasions, they visited the grandparents of both the mother and the father.