Ok, I’m really long-winded. I wrote a post about our top 10 rules as parents but after I posted it, I realized just how long it really is. So, I created a page.
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Praying I get it right,
When I asked the Lord to share His heart with me for this journey, He brought me to Malachi 4:2 “The Sun of Righteousness shall rise with healing in His wings…” Here we find the picture of a new day dawning. A new day brings with it new hope, mercies and possibilities. The darkness is…
I’ve found myself in the hard place. The place where hard, painful decisions have to be made. The place where the committed part of me is at war with the exhausted part of me. The place where it’s easy to quit, understandable if you give up and the idea of “normal” seems like paradise. In…
There are many important moments in our children’s lives and today we celebrated one of those very moments, Kristan & Heather’s water baptism. It was such a joy to watch as they took this important step of making a public declaration of their faith in Jesus Christ. Click to Download Video They were baptized by…
Our biological daughter was 11 years old when we made the decision to add to our family through foster care adoption. To say that she was excited would be a gross understatement – she couldn’t wait to have a sister! At 11 years old she was extremely weary of being the only child. She had…
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 In Part One of this post, I explored this go-to verse in the adoption & foster care movement within the church. I’ve often used…
We’ve all seen Tarzan – the orphaned child raised by apes who spends his whole childhood thinking he’s an ape only to discover that he’s a man. As the movie unfolds we watch him suffer loss, rejection, fear, friendship, hope and love. Through his ups and downs we feel the tension of being caught…
