I realized just this morning that I have been doing what I’m sure most people do when they experience pain/deferred hope/waiting … I’ve been pretending like the thing I’m hoping for just isn’t happening. It’s like the big purple elephant in the room, our adoption. I’m...
Been thinking a lot lately about the kingdom of God, which we’ve begun calling “the upside down kingdom” (a phrase, of course, we stole from someone else). You see, for much of my faith journey I have thought that being a christian meant that...
For the last few weeks I’ve not been picturing my girls or wondering their whereabouts as much as I was before, if at all. Some of it may be my subconscious defenses, as our adoption hangs in suspension (along with many other details in our life). As I type a picture...
Warning: Lengthy musings ahead This blog vacillates, for me, between being a bulletin board of progress updates on our adoption for friends, family and others in the adoption world to being my version of artistic expression only to be appreciated most by me, Nate and...
I’ve been thinking lately about all this rush to get our paperwork completed. On the heels of several conversations with new moms letting me in on how dramatically their lives have changed, I might expect that I’d be dragging my feet a bit so as to give...
