Mla Citation For The Lucky Few By Heather Avis

In the world many people are scared or frightened from things they can’t control in their life. Their life is chaotic, or their uncomfortable. In the situations God is pushing them towards something bigger, something unknown filled with joy and happiness. In life people have to go through the darkness to see the light. In The Lucky Few, an autobiography written by Heather Avis. Heather Avis tells the story of how she had to climb here mountain of darkness to reach the peak of good. Heather Avis and her husband want to have children, but she finds out she is unable to bear a child. She is completely devastated. She begins to questions God’s intentions. Her husband and her decided they wanted to start adopting kids, but when the adoption agency

The fear in life makes us vulnerable, and when we are vulnerable it allows us to be open and see God’s goodness. In the book Heather Avis had just adopted a kid that is very ill. She was constantly terrified that her child would die, whether from the oxygen tube strangling her or forgetting to administer her medicine. Avis found out good new about her child that she has begun to heal.” It had been a difficult Road, yes. But with each twist, turn, and pothole, I gained a patient strength. I learned that God’s goodness and faithfulness do not hinge on my daughter's health, yet this same goodness was extended to us when God gave us Macyn, and then gave us this moment” (132). When the Avis were scared and afraid that something out of their control would harm their baby girl, God was their whispering in their ear, giving them the guidance they needed. When they found out that their baby was starting to heal, it was a sign from God telling them it’s not in your hands it’s in

In The Lucky Few, Heather Avis wanted a closed adoption. She didn’t want to be connected to the child’s birth parents. She felt that a relationship with the birth parents would be an inconvenience. Avis said, “ While I feel a deep, deep gratitude toward our daughter’s birth family, I was also steeped in vulture’s ideas of what a relationship between an adoptive family and birth family should look like” (109-110). This is what Avis originally felt, but God nudged her out of her comfort zone and pushed her to have a relationship with the birth father “You are like my daughter now.’ Then pulled me in for a hug. We held each other and cried, and I thanked God for pushing me to this place of total discomfort. I thanked God for the grace he had extended to me as he continued to push me away from my own ideas of what is best, ideas that usually involves my security, and toward the blessing I can experience when I died for myself. As I cried in the arms of an old Armenian man, I began to see more clearly how this whole adoption, this whole notion of motherhood and growing a family, was about so much more than just me” (119). God opened Heather Avis’ eyes to a whole new