“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know…” ~William Wilberforce As a former English teacher, I love words. Words create and convey and communicate meaning beyond their literality. For instance, when someone asks me where “Lydia’s real mom lives?”… The question has adoption-parent-child-relationship-implications, that communicate [Read More...]
Today… The news images flash– Of smoke and explosions and sorrow-stained concrete, Of children frantically clinging to parents, And eyes scanning crowds for loved-ones-unaccounted-for. A mama of five enters Heaven. Her husband is left with raw pain and a house of little aching hearts. Today, his first full day without the-woman-he-doesn’t-know-how-to-live-without. This baby– His mama prays for [Read More...]
I asked my cousin Hannah if I could share this prayer request with you. I know many of you have already been praying for this sweet little one. Baby Oliver was born on Monday. My cousin and her husband were told early on in the pregnancy that Oliver would need heart surgery within the [Read More...]
Praying for the Hartfeld and Springstead families tonight… As Jacob and Stacey head home awaiting hospice. Please join us in praying for Stacey and Jacob and their little ones. Dear Stacey & Jacob, Oh sweet friends… All day long. All day long God has brought you to mind. And every place I went today…the conversation [Read More...]
Yesterday we were in the bathroom and I was doing her hair. In puffs. For church. She’s three. And we were in a hurry-late-hurry. And that’s always when big questions seem to surface. She asked: “Do you still love me even when I don’t obey?” (She’d just managed to spill a large glass of milk [Read More...]
Three years ago… Our adoption of Lydia was finalized on the day-before-Thanksgiving!!! And this post– Seven Reasons That We Love Adoption Will conclude our mini-adoption-series for November, National Adoption Month. If you missed the other posts in this series you can find them here: And Then He Told Me that I’m Adopted (our adoption stories) [Read More...]
You can usually tell what I think about a book by its appearance after I’ve read it. Turned-down-corners and underlining is the litmus test. I started last week’s mini-adoption-series before I’d checked my writing calendar and remembered that I’d agreed to review Karen Ehman’s new book– Let. It. Go. The irony is, that her whole [Read More...]
We had many questions when we started seriously considering adoption… And those questions shifted as we wandered down our adoptive journey and especially as we took a hop of faith toward our second adoption. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this mini-series, you might want to check out our adoption story before reading [Read More...]
I don’t know why it never “clicked” before– How I’m adopted too. But somewhere in the middle of our first journey down the road of adoption, I came across these verses… “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, [Read More...]
“There is unwavering peace today… when an uncertain tomorrow… is trusted to an unchanging God.” ~ Ann Voskamp *photo source…a kindred spirit who reminds me… He is faithful. Don’t want to miss new posts? Please connect with us by email, facebook, twitter, or rss feed! InLinkz.com
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