" It’s easy to shake our heads in disgust at Pharaoh or Herod or Planned Parenthood. It’s not as easy to see the ways in which we ourselves often have a Pharaoh-like view of children rather than a Christlike view.1 What God calls blessing, we often grumble at as a curse—and for the same reason those old kings did, because they disrupt our life plans. "

― Russell D. Moore , Adoption: What Joseph of Nazareth Can Teach Us about This Countercultural Choice