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When Faith Looks Like a Leopard Print Dress for a Girl I’ve Never Met

July 15, 2014 10 Comments

Faith is the assurance of things unseen… I had been feeling the tugging at the core of my being. Seen it on the horizon.  Had dreams that the crib we leave open for foster children wasn’t going to be empty for too long. My mind saw no name, or age, or date…but my spirit saw a […]

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When You Have Just Witnessed a Miracle

July 1, 2014 15 Comments

“We have just witnessed a miracle.”  House silent. The one who placed this endless circle on my finger twenty-two years ago, stares up with me at the draping canopy from our king sized bed. “I know.” He whispers back. The kids just placed in bed. And while some miracles must be hunted down, dug up, searched […]

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