God's "Plan B"

Recently I have been reading Dr. Moore's book "Adopted For Life". It is a great read for anyone but especially for those thinking about or pursuing adoption. He has a chapter in the book entitled "Don't you want your own kids?" Just the title makes me laugh a little because of how many times I have heard that exact question or some version of that question. It used to hurt my feelings but I am starting to understand more about that question. I have even come to the point where I am thankful for that question because it has really brought me to a deeper understanding of who I am in Christ. As Dr. Moore states in his book "...for many who've never experienced adoption, adoption seems to be simply a Plan B for people who can't have children." For me, that was never the case. Not because I'm especially holy or in tune with God or even because of the beautiful spiritual picture that I now see adoption is. Really, God has just put it on my heart from an early age. I always knew that I would adopt children, whether I was blessed with the ability to have biological children or not. Lately though, the whole "Plan B" mentality has got me thinking. Really, I'm a lot more like the adopted baby we will soon have in our home than any child that would come from my womb.
Romans 11:17-18 says, "If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you." I was the wild olive shoot and I have been grafted in among others that "biologically belonged" to that tree. More than that, when God chose me, I had nothing. I was an orphan and looked nothing like my Heavenly Father. That is why I chose the verse I did at the top of my blog:
Ephesians 1:3-8, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding."
I am so glad that God chose me, when I was unlovely and orphaned. I am so glad that I am not "Plan B" for God, but rather deeply cherished and loved as His heir. I am so thankful that he has given us the opportunity to experience in some small way a part of the joy it must bring our Father to bring us into His family.