Loud cracking sounds startle me from my sleep. With the wars in the middle east, I roll my head over as thoughts already consume me, “What was that?” I ask sleeping husband. “Thunder and lightening”, he whispers. And with Israel having no peace, and Russia domineering Ukraine, it can be hard not to think the wars […]
When Faith Looks Like a Leopard Print Dress for a Girl I’ve Never Met
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 […]
When You Have Just Witnessed a Miracle
“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 […]
Pressing Forward Through the Sting of Loss
He giggles upstairs. Him and the daughter who sat, distraught on a bench with me many weeks ago. (See story below) A dark skinned boy his age, sits cardboard-like, on my eighteen year-old’s night stand. “Whose that?” I peek my head around the corner, and two children, eighteen and five, face each other, half curled up, […]
Exposed Infants and a Call to Parent
I was completely broken by Michelle’s post over at Gathering the Lambs this past week. She is a fellow foster parent and adoptive parent who has opened her home and heart with loving arms. Please read the shocking statistics in her town about foster care over at….Gathering The Lambs. I know from experience…my city is no […]