It’s Spina Bifida Awareness Month. Israel has Spina Bifida and the form he has is called myelomeningocele. If you google “myelomeningocele”, you will read that it is the most “severe” or “serious” form of Spina Bifida. And if you go a little further and look up the words severe and serious, you will see words like grave, critical, dour, grim,… Read More
Today I sat on the phone and I listened to words that fell like stones within my heart, and tiny pieces shattered. I listened in disbelief as the nurse relayed medical information that I did not want to hear. And deeply, I raged as I heard her speak about MRI results that are a direct result of medical abuse and… Read More
Maybe I need God every moment of the day because I’m tired and sometimes it’s just damn hard. And maybe there are days that I mourn my life before I chose wreckage. Days before I knew the truth, and blindly skipped across this life without delving too deeply into suffering, injustice and pain. Now I wade through the muck and… Read More
We went to the park and Israel was excited to go play with all the kids he saw crawling on the equipment. I placed him in the sand and he quickly army crawled toward the group of kids by the slide. He struggled to make it across the sand and as he neared, the kids darted across the sand to… Read More
Adoption has an ugly side. I don’t think you can see it from the outside looking in. It will absolutely change you. It cannot enter your life and not rip, shred and tear. It enters invited and sets up in your home and heart. Adoption will unpack a suitcase on your living room floor, your kitchen counter, your family car,… Read More
I’ll never forget the day my two boys were sitting in the bathtub making ice cream cones on top of each other’s head out of soap and in the process creating a lake outside the tub. My 5 year old, Isaac suddenly stopped mid-soap and gawked at his brother, 3 year old Joel. “Mom”, he gasped “Joel’s ear is gone!”…. Read More