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…
How Does God Love Us? Love is patient. Love is kind. Just the first two sentences of I Corinthians 13 have me prickly. My prayer journal is filled with pleas to God: “Make me kind. Help me to be patient….” And mostly it has to do with the people in my ordinary life. Not the people who bug me I see once a week or less. Not the irritating FB trolls. I need patience and kindness for my children and…