I haven’t stopped thinking about this video since I watched it: It’s powerful, to me, for two reasons. 1. The miracle of adoption is making a family out people who otherwise wouldn’t...
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Last year at this time, we were tucked into a room in a West Des Moines, Iowa, roadside hotel staying the night to wait out an epic Midwestern ice storm before the final leg home. We ordered a pizza a...
read more..How do I encompass the past year in one post? How do I adequately express the way that our lives have changed, from the subtle to the extraordinary, in 500 pithy words? I guess I don’t. As I was...
read more..Today is Orphan Sunday. Last year on this day, I wrote this. More than anything I want tho have HIS heart for adoption, but the truth is: His heart is a heart of rescue. Christ SAVED us from an eterni...
read more..We lower into his chair, and he settles on my lap, his hair still damp from the bath, smelling like soap and clean, delicious baby. He plucks his pacifier out of my hand and pops it into his mouth. Hi...
read more..It’s been so long since I’ve just sat down and written anything here. Just written. Just said whatever it was that I wanted to say in that moment. Most of the time, thoughts come to me at ...
read more..Jen Hatmaker’s most recent blog post, After the Airport, has been making the rounds on Facebook. It is an honest look at the hard, beautiful work of parenting after the “Gotcha Day.”...
read more..Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deut 6:5). Harry was dedicated at church yesterday. With about a dozen other families, we stood on the pl...
read more..At 9 am Mountain time on Tuesday, June 7, in a court room in Salt Lake City, a judge proclaimed that Harry is legally our son. For us it was a formality; he has been our son since the moment we knew w...
read more..Harrison, It’s not time for your monthly update, but there are a few things I want to say to you, so I hope you’ll humor me. Even though I am a crier and have cried real tears over such si...
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