Michael Scott Gets It Right
Cats: Adoption, Kids, Personal, TV, Video|First of all, the season finale of The Office last night was absolutely brilliant. I think that as an episode, this was better than the Jim & Pam cliffhanger a couple seasons ago. I can’t wait for fall!
But the actual purpose of this post is to point out one time where the jackass boss Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, wasn’t such a jackass for once. He finds out his ex-girlfriend got in vitro fertilization from some high-class sperm bank while they were dating, instead of trying to conceive his child. Morality aside, I find his response very poignant in my own life as an adoptive father:
“My whole life, I have known two things: I love sex, and I want to have kids. And, I always thought that those two things would go hand-in-hand. But now, I think it might be one or the other.”
In order to get to the point where I can love my month-old son unconditionally as my own, I had to mourn the loss of a biological child: one that looks like me & my wife, one that shares our genes and direct ancestry. Now that I’ve come through that process, I can’t imagine it any other way than to adopt. I also can’t imagine a son that could look more like my wife and me in so many ways, that already takes after us at times, and one whom I love so dearly that I rush home from work just to see how much he’s grown and developed in the last 8 hours. If this is even the most infinitesimal fraction of the love God feels for me as His adopted son, well… well, that just leaves me speechless.
