It’s Martin Luther King Day! Our family drove a U-Haul into Abilene, Texas around Martin Luther King Day 16 years ago after living nearly 10 years in Latin America. I’m sure I didn’t even know about the holiday because I was focused on moving boxes, bare windows and...
Do you feel afraid of what’s ahead? Maybe it’s changes that you’re anticipating—a new season for the family, new job, new commitments. Or maybe it’s the old that you’re afraid of. You’re afraid the old problems will stay the same and you can’t handle them much longer....
My heart grieves the pain and unrest our country is experiencing. It makes me reflect on some of our own family’s experiences with white preference and prejudice. I want to share this post again that I wrote a few years ago when our son, Jacob, carried the...
Today is his first birthday. I won’t be sharing any cake with him. At the most, my daughter will forward a picture of him that she’ll receive from his mom and dad–his adoptive family. The day he was born is probably the only birthday I’ll share with him because...
When we adopted the twins, I was confident that love would set things right to their very wrong beginning. I grew up watching love heal wounds, reconcile conflicts and instill hope. So naturally, I counted on our love to do the same for the twins. We addressed their...
It’s November — National Adoption Awareness month! This month of awareness reminds me of how unaware I was nearly twenty years ago when we began our adoption journey with the twins. We were hardly aware of any of the issues involved in the process of...
