As you know, it’s National Adoption Month. As women, it’s easy to wrap our minds around adoption….scooping up a child and letting him or her call us, “Mama”. But what about dads? Dads are vital, yet often the least appreciated people in society. And when it comes to adoption, we can think of them as the […]
Today is the day, folks! Today starts the launch of a month-long host of personal adoption stories from people just like you! After all, November is National Adoption Month! The goal in sharing these stories is to focus on all God has done and continues to do in families, through foster/adopt, domestic, private, and international adoption. […]
Sit with me for more than two minutes, and you will realize just how passionate I am about adoption. Unlike some, my heart for adoption isn’t about some humanitarian feat, a Hollywood trend, or even a hope at some “works of righteousness” because I believe myself to be some kind of “good” person. My heart for adoption […]
Fog sleeps deep on our open field, this crisp fall morning. And it’s almost like someone told heaven, the weight of my very own heart. A slippery, unfinished deck, flashes me back to last summer. Memories of sitting there, watching kids play, hearing their laughter dancing through my being. Yet, what was relaxing has now become […]
Gusts rage against the front of our faces as eyes squint for the big, yellow, school bus, coming up the hill. At only a few feet tall, I see the wind push and pull, take the mighty cedars and bend them low, without question or permission. And I wait, as his tiny voice, resonates through the […]
I read a post the other day, describing a statement from a man who aged out of foster care, and spoke at the 2013 CAFO Summit, mentioned by Stacey Jackson Gagnon from Ranson Israel. Here is his quote… “When I grew up in the orphanage it was Christians who came and built nicer buildings. Christians who […]