Videos On Adoption
THIS Sunday is National Adoption Sunday! Here are some great videos that you can share with your congregation! If not this Sunday, make it a priority to share in the near future. You never know…you...
View ArticleA New Chapter…
I have been amazed at how I have seen the Lord open doors of opportunity to share God’s story in our life. Recently I was approached by Ann Dunagan, the author of The Mission Minded Family and The...
View ArticleThe Broken Mom
Tonight I go to bed with tears streaming down my face. Some days it’s difficult being a mom. I can’t blame my children. Especially my children who came to me as older children. There is so much that...
View ArticleI Still Love You
The adopted child’s heart is pieced together, bandaged, covered in patches, and re-covered with new patches until it looks so worn out that you begin to wonder if it can ever love again. But then I am...
View ArticleRivalry Within the Heart
I received a question from Julia on sibling rivalry and acting out between both birth and adopted siblings. So today I will tackle the question on how to deal with the rivalry that can stir up between...
View ArticleAlways Have Hope
My message is always a message of hope. My hope is always in Christ Jesus. I respond in faith to that hope. That is why when I speak to other adoptive parents, I speak with a message of hope! I speak...
View ArticleBuilding Attachment
A reader asks the following question: We recently adopted a 3 1/2 year old girl. We would love to know if you have any information/literature recommendations on indiscriminate friendliness as a RAD. We...
View ArticleBecoming a Titus 2 Woman
Becoming an adoptive mother is a role that we are ill-prepared for and ill-trained to understand the depth of involvement of our nurturing side and how badly rejection can feel. The days can be filled...
View ArticleBreathe
There are days that I can get so distracted. This thought of holding onto hope can get lost in the shuffle of daily life. I have to be careful not to allow my heart to harden towards my children. Their...
View ArticleA Crown of Beauty
Children who have been torn down and told they are nothing all of their lives. Children who often wonder, why did my birth mom give me up. Children who think they are worthless. Children who got...
View ArticleHealing Power in a Name
We often forget the healing power of Jesus! “NICKY, JESUS LOVES YOU!” by David Wilkerson [May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011] I am not against using modern methods in ministry. We employ many such things in...
View ArticlePeaceful Fruit of Righteousness
“How did God Almighty parent His children? What would matter most as I mothered? How could I mother with a heart after God’s?” Ann Voskamp These are questions I often ask myself. God parents me on a...
View ArticleThe Perfect Formula
Sitting here at the beach, watching my children play, I recognize how God made each of them so different. Some of them are sensitive to everything around them. Others are compassionate. Some never meet...
View ArticleYou Are My Gift
This morning, out of the blue, I asked my husband an odd question as I often do. “Do you care about me?” I knew the answer before he responded. “Deeply,” my husband responds. I press on because I have...
View ArticleCommon Sense
Today I sit in a quaint little coffee shop at Sunset Beach. It’s raining…no pouring outside. Not the ideal day for a vacation day at the beach. But yet it is. Some alone time with my daughter, Hannah....
View ArticleQuick To Judge
There has been a sinful nature in me that has developed over the years with parenting. It is one that is quick to assume. Quick to think the worst of a situation. Quick to judge. Some may say I have...
View ArticleDo You Hear Me?
Sometimes I think that my broken children don’t hear the same way I do. It is almost as if they can’t accept the words of endearment that are being poured into them. It is almost as if they process...
View ArticleForgiven
I think one of the hardest things for a broken child is to realize that they are forgiven. One of my children once said to me, “Mom, I’ve done so much bad I don’t know how to turn back. I can’t be...
View ArticleRun the Race
This race we run is a difficult one. The challenges of life are difficult. But through this life, walking in the footsteps of our Savior, studying the Word as it was poured into His disciples, I find...
View ArticleThe Righteous Cry Out
Crushed in spirit. That can be me. That can be my child. Each for different reasons. Me. I get crushed because of rejection. Because of what I try to do…love. But it is not received. At least by...
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