"In giving life and love to a child, whether by birth or by adoption, we participate most nearly in what it means to be made in God's image because then we share -- if only to a limited degree -- the chiefest attributes of God the Father himself. Not to offer love to our own children is to miss one of the foretastes of eternity, the grace of posterity as a sacrament of everlasting life." -- D. Bruce Lockerbie