If you choose the road of foster care and adoption, you are choosing pain, brokenness, and sorrow. You are choosing sleepless nights and exhausting days. You are truly loving the least of these, but with it comes pain. You are willingly unpacking baggage filled with loss, shame and fear with every child that enters your home and it will spread… Read More
He may never walk..far more disabling is if he walks all over someone weaker. He may never speak…far more impaired if he speaks cruel and unkind words. He might never live on his own…a bigger failure if he lives only for himself. He may never act like all the other children…much sadder world if his actions cause hurt to another’s… Read More
I crept with trepidation and fear towards the darkness. I peered with weary eyes over the ledge and my soul lurched. With trembling hands I reached out and embraced the broken, and my heart cried “Where are you God”. I held the boy whose bones fought to escape thin skin, whose heart fought to remain beating. I touched the boy… Read More
When I was little, I told my grandpa that I wanted to catch a bird. My grandfather was a rancher and I can still remember his gnarled and scarred hands from mending fence and punching cattle. He smelled of pipe tobacco, honest sweat, and horse. His voice was gravel and when he spoke, he was listened to. I held him… Read More
One little boy has tipped our whole lives upside down. I always knew that we would change his life by bringing him home, but I never knew that he would profoundly change my life. We set out to raise a ransom(adoption fees) and adopt this little wisp of a boy, with the idea that we would give him a new… Read More
…I am angry. I work with nursing students and I was enlightened yesterday. At my job, I am an RN for an amazing home visitation program for families who have special needs children. As RNs, we visit these families and do assessments and provide support. I did not have any home visits to send the students on yesterday, so I… Read More