“Though it took me a long time, once God saved me, I was able to look at my parents and my adoption with new eyes. They are the ones who raised me, loved me, and took care of me all those years, so I have gratitude to them and to God. God has done the same thing for us, in “choosing us in Him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons.””