This week on social media, I’ve seen this video posted several times. I’ve seen it before and it never fails to make me cry. This one child represents the heart cry of over 400,000 kids every single day in our Foster Care System. This one boy echoes the utter loneliness of 153 million orphans worldwide. For…
“… Jesus knew His hour had come that he should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” John 13:1 There isn’t a love more perfect than the love that Jesus displayed on that night. As He sat with His disciples, knowing that…
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…
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…
I had lunch with a friend recently and shared some difficult moments that our family had been going through in recent months. After sharing some details, my friend looked at me and said, “Wow. I would have never known just looking at your Facebook profile, it looked like everything was going great.” Her comment gave…