Oh friends, Can I just share something personal with you? As most know, we have been foster parents for ten years. We have been in court battles with twelve-year-old’s who have been abused, carried struggling, drug-exposed preemies for years of sleepless nights, and held far too many children who have had brain damage because a parent […]
The Lady Who Said She Was Going To Punch My Two-Year-Old In The Face.
I sit in the car for what seems all night. And although I think big, and continually long for almost epidemic proportions of insight and idealism… For some reason this night, I wanted to shrink small, run, hide, live inside my car…and never step back into reality. For there can be this thing called, “rejection” that […]
Fragile Families, and Why You Should Fight for Those You Love
My suitcase held a strange comfort as it lay open on my bedroom floor. I wasn’t going anywhere…But something about a filled case brought peace and comfort… Luggage waiting made me feel like I had an option of not staying…Even though I was morally obligated, and staying. A little girl lay curled up in an outlined […]
NOBLE – Valuable Truths this Missionary Story Taught Me
I am still reeling. As if caught in this love/hate relationship with the film. I want to run from it, close it out of my consciousness. Pretend I didn’t see it, so I don’t have to write this review. But, I DID see it. I WAS compelled to pre-screen this movie. I WAS drawn to blog […]
When You Just Need to Be Refreshed
For years I thought about going, word of mouth flowing like rivers from ice melting on the mountain-top, down into the oceans. I toy with the idea…but children, social worker appointments, doctors, and play rehearsals make me doubt the very hope of getting slivers a time over a three day period. I sit to lead my […]