You brought me flowers today. With roughened hands…from labors years. Once manicured. Tended. Cared for. Now, living sacrifices of surrender… Love put not in words, but acts of service. Gifts of endearment. The hours of hands labor. Early mornings before sun wakes and the world arises… Hands with worn away layers, callouses from life’s lament. Yet, […]
I saw him yesterday. My brother. My best friend. A decade apart. Families separated. No hate, or anger, or bitterness…just a job move. Out of state. Parting ways….Never an easy thing. Children at the time. Naive. Starting our own families. A bridge that grew as distance stayed. Between wives. Husbands. Kids. Families. Yet, distance longs for […]
My Son, What do I say? You turn eighteen today. Grown…in every way. From soft, baby skin & long, skinny feet, to a strapping man, now 6 foot 3. To write this, son, is bitter, sweet. You grabbed my heart before your birth. Talking to you, playing classical music to you, and loving you long before […]
Dear Daughter – What do I tell you..about life, love, happiness? About letting go of the looking glass. About pain, the truth of pain. Heartache. That love doesn’t always look like it should. That in you resides a reservoir of strength. That your beauty is not in style, makeup, or dress. Beauty rests deep in you. […]
Why Adopt? People ask. Isn’t your family perfect, just the way it is? Why adopt? Because we are more than just ourselves….we are His. His story, is our story, which in turn becomes another story. While we were yet sinner’s Christ died for us. Not by works, or once perfect, but while we were tarnished. Like […]
Our adoption story. All for His glory. A call from placement. A prayerful assessment. Waiting to find her. A child left behind. Hungry. Skinny. Homeless. Needy.The search. Over. A drive to go get her. We see her, with ladies. All doting, amazed. Quietly, we enter. She turns around, as if she remembers. A look, a gaze, […]