This is National Adoption Month. Did you know that? People from around the world are sharing their stories of how children were found, lives were changes, families were expanded through the miracle of adoption. This past, “Orphan Sunday”, I have been praying desperately for the Global Church to grab His heart and run with the things […]
UNITE Linky (Short Video) Our Family’s Adoption Story
Oh friends, Can I just share something personal with you? As most know, we have been foster parents for ten years. We have been in court battles with twelve-year-old’s who have been abused, carried struggling, drug-exposed preemies for years of sleepless nights, and held far too many children who have had brain damage because a parent […]
The Lady Who Said She Was Going To Punch My Two-Year-Old In The Face.
I sit in the car for what seems all night. And although I think big, and continually long for almost epidemic proportions of insight and idealism… For some reason this night, I wanted to shrink small, run, hide, live inside my car…and never step back into reality. For there can be this thing called, “rejection” that […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]
Fragile Families, and Why You Should Fight for Those You Love
My suitcase held a strange comfort as it lay open on my bedroom floor. Â I wasn’t going anywhere…But something about a filled case brought peace and comfort… Luggage waiting made me feel like I had an option of not staying…Even though I was morally obligated, and staying. A little girl lay curled up in an outlined […]
NOBLE – Valuable Truths this Missionary Story Taught Me
I am still reeling. As if caught in this love/hate relationship with the film. I want to run from it, close it out of my consciousness. Â Pretend I didn’t see it, so I don’t have to write this review. But, I DID see it. I WAS compelled to pre-screen this movie. I WAS drawn to blog […]