Just for fun, I checked out this definition of endangered species on my favorite website, Wikipedia, (or is that Craigslist?) and came up with this:
An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. (Check. This is me.) Only a few of the many species at risk of extinction actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection. Many more species become extinct, or potentially will become extinct, without gaining public notice. (OH, you have to make it to a list.)I guess I am not an "Endangered Species" afterall.
But I still could become extinct without gaining public notice. Great.
As if it weren't already hard enough to fit in. Most adoptess know, you can't totally fit in among Koreans and you can't totally fit in among Americans. The only place you do really fit in, is with other Korean adoptees. So, I am happy for all those Korean kids who won't have to wonder if they are white, but I'm sad for me.
For more information on Korean adoptees please visit this rather accurate (from my point of view) Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_adoptee
I think we are all of us, always "looking for home" - some more acutely than others (we just finished our Women's Retreat, and Leonora talked about her experience of being in exile (from South Africa) and her constant senst of "looking for home.") I know that I'm not adopted, and I'm not of mixed race - but I think I had that same sense of always seeking "where do I belong?" - until I found it at Messiah. The church community is really "home" to me! May you find "home" somewhere sometime SOON, and may that be a place where you feel not endangered, but that your uniqueness is well-and-truly embraced!
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