"We believe it’s no accident that you’re here."⁣ ⁣ It seemed so strange to hear those words because for my entire life, I believed it was an accident. And not just here at this church, but here on earth ... I believed my life was an accident. Born as a result of teen pregnancy and adopted as an infant, I struggled to believe my life was created on purpose. As we started coming to Hope in 2014, I took the Alpha and CORE courses and began to understand more about our identity in Jesus. I learned that God planned for us before we were in our mother's womb, that we are all chosen. There’s no footnote, no except for, no qualifier. And that meant that I could place my identity and purpose in God instead of letting other people, society and this world define who I was. Finally, I knew who and whose I was.⁣ ⁣ As I was coming to this understanding, I continued to pray that if it was his will, that he let me learn who my birth parents were. No longer because I needed to know them to know who I w...