Begin Anew Reading Plan What does March mean for you? Maybe its just another month. March for me is the beginning of spring. Yes. I know spring is technically in April, but let me explain to you how three years ago during the month of March my life was flipped upside down. Begin anew. I stood at the airport, in a daze. I had flown into this airport dozens of times. With only three main gates, the Yeager Airport in…
Three Truths When Love is Hard Dear Mom, Loving our children is hard work. When love comes into our hearts we have in imagine of it happening suddenly. Falling in love with our children sometimes happens right away, but sometimes true love comes slow. One of the lessons I’ve learned from adoption is not one I would have predicted. NO matter how my children have been placed in my arms, whether in the OR with a blue curtain hiding the…
A Prayer for Love Even when I mess up – which is daily – I’m still loved. In the middle of a mess I’ve created, I am still loved. No amount of shame or guilt will keep me from His love. In fact, shame and guilt bring me to His love. As we recognize our sin, we can leave it behind and run to our Father. He is waiting, you know. Waiting to bring us back home. He is ready to bring us to…
Love and Pancakes: A Definition of Faithful Love The house number was 415 on 24th Street. A house where I learned about love. Maybe my own parents will be upset that the house on Circle Drive (my home) wasn’t the place I first remember love, but alas. The earliest childhood memories I have of feeling loved, important, and special come from the memories I have of the house on 24th Street. The house looked exactly like the other houses on…