Encouragement?

Third training meeting down, 1 more to go. At least for me, Sean has 2 more. Then the home visit, then approval!! I think I've written on here before that I coach our young women at church for the annual basketball tournament. Over here in the eastern part of the US we don't have regional basketball tourney's like they do in Utah & Idaho :) Anyway, I've missed two practices and last week I let them know that I would be missing this Saturday as well and I told them why. So yesterday at church I had several people come up to me and say, "Rumor has it, you are adopting kids." Why yes we are, that's the plan anyway. And their immediate response, at least from two people was, "you know those kids are damaged, right?" WHAT??!!! What does that have to do with the price of rice in China? Seriously, we are looking to adopt kids who might not normally have a chance at having a "forever" family and you tell me they are damaged?! what the hell? Yes these kids will have issues, but don't your kids? My kids probably won't have the same issues as yours will, but we are being given tools to deal with them. Yes, we are going to be getting more than one at once, we will figure out how to deal with that too, but you've had lots of time to deal with all your kids and they still have issues. And who knows why they are in the system. What if they just had the misfortune of both of their loving parents dying in a car accident and they don't have any family left. Yes, they will have to deal with the grief of losing both their parents at one time, but that doesn't mean they can't love and be loved. Sometimes people annoy me. Luckily I know when to hold a grudge (my sisters can tell you I'm really good at that) and when to just shake my head and think, "they have no clue," and brush it off as total ignorance. Yes my kids are going to have issues, but we will deal with them in the same way that you deal with your kids issues. Find something else positive to say please, thanks.