For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

International adoption is very expensive.  The whole process will end up costing us $30,000.  When I tell people how much we need to save for our adoption, they are often confused and wonder why we wouldn't rather spend that money on a new car (or two), or family vacations, or our children's college fund.  While all those things sound great, my wife and I always remember the passage in Matthew which states, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal;  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."  Our ultimate treasure is our family, and we know that it is eternally more important to bring home the child the God has prepared for us than it is to have a really nice vacation, or a new car.  How would we feel if we met that child in the next life and had to explain to him/her that the reason they never got to be part of our family is because we really wanted to go Disney World, or we really needed to buy a boat.