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Bigger and Better
In Young Life we used to organize this scavenger hunt of sorts for high school kids called “Bigger and Better” where we’d give them a penny or paperclip – something small – to start off. Then, in teams, they’d go from house to house and ask if the person at that home...
Keeping it at Bay
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...
“Out Of the Mouth of Babes…”
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 I'd have it all together....
Nearness
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...
And The Pendulum Swings … Musings of A Temporarily Barren Woman
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...
Why the rush, really?
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 myself a few...
A Prayer For Our Girls…
As we get ready to go to sleep tonight, my heart has been with our future daughters. I'm praying this prayer for them tonight... Kind Father, as they sleep, would You grant them peace. When they rise, would You grant them joy. Even now, before we yet know their names,...
The Power of “Should”
I can’t explain this growing desire in me to play some sort of role in helping the lives of these orphans in Africa. It’s rare that I’m awake much beyond when my head hits the pillow, but lately I’ve been late to fall asleep and early to rise rolling over in my mind...
To The Hungry Soul, Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
There’s something safe about having a blog that you know no one is going to read for at least a while (or maybe never). Maybe it’s more like a journal. Regardless, this process seems monumental enough in our lives that I want it recorded. Riding the range of my...