Her head is tucked tight inside of one of the books we picked up from the library. As a home-school mom, I thrive on knowledge, but also the age-old education of good old-fashioned conversation. The kind people originally shared; face-to-face, one-on-one, the older teaching the younger. Because kids, if we let them, can become more than […]
We talked to each other from across the chain-link fence. Mostly making silly sounds, and seeing if the other would mock or repeat them. I was maybe six, blonde-hair….Even then, eyes seeing distant lands. Doug? Seven-ish. One day, Doug, from across the fence, found a shovel his dad had left in a pile of dirt, in […]
Like James Bond on a mission with the clock running. Time ticking. Plane leaving. We wind around the streets of Shanghai to come to strong iron gates. Inside, an International School sits resurrected, for all to see. The guard points us in the right direction in Chinese. We drive along smooth cement roads, to find sprawling […]
As one remarkable Chinese daughter lands in America, a boy with bridle bone desperately needs parents, our foster family is frozen in a system which has included a two-year battle, yet our foster daughter is still far from legally free… God reminds me of the value of children. “It would be better for them to be […]
He told me to stay there. In the quiet. In the dark. Many days before flying across the nation. But I wrestled. Didn’t want to hear Him. I struggled like a child wanting to clothe myself in designer jeans to impress the other children at school. “But you will find me there.” The impression was so […]
“Do you have a pair of socks I can borrow? Size four.” A preschool-aged boy sits in the entry of our door, sheepishly looking up at me, soaked with shame in his eyes. One black sock, another white. A hole so large, his feet freeze right through, this cold fall night. Frost blanketing his life. His black […]