Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Waiting is hard. I think, as a mom (and a closet control freak), I deal with this by doing. When I have a mission to accomplish, time passes quickly and satifactorily. I can control what happens when and how. The problem with this scenario in…
Foreloved
It is strange, this ability to love someone whose face we haven’t seen. You could say that we love the idea of her, but that wouldn’t quite hit the mark. We love Lillian Isabella Keith. We do not know what her face looks like, we do not know in which region of her country she resides. We do know that…
The Red Thread
I am sure that as soon as any adoptive family begins their China process, they hear of the Chinese proverb of the Red Thread. “An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangle, but will never be broken.” While I do not believe in…
When We Are Weak
I am a planner. I am a control freak. I have absolutely no power over anything in this adoption process. In actuality, I have no power over anything going on in my life right now. This has been hard, hard, hard to deal with. But you know what? God gave me a husband who knows how to encourage me in…
Who Loves Coffee?
I love coffee. You love coffee. I love helping others. You love helping others. What if we could combine our love of coffee with our love of helping… What’s that? There’s a fabulous organization that happens to combine these two wonderful things? Sign me up! Just Love Coffee is a fantastic company who helps adoptive families raise money with every…
Fundraiser Shop is Live!
It will now be much easier to spread the word about our fundraiser jewelry! I have opened an etsy shop with just our fundraiser crafts and jewelry. Like it, Love it, Share it with all your friends and family! The link is here. More goodies will be added all the time!
Let the Paperwork Begin!
Never have I been so happy to receive paperwork in the mail! Today we received our fingerprint cards from Lifeline, which lead to online forms for FBI and such, which lead to reading more carefully the Alabama supplement to the adoption manual, which lead to lots more paperwork that we can already knock out of the way! Yes, it is…
143 million
143 million. That is the number of orphans in this world. 1 million of those are in China. As our family looks through the “Waiting Child” lists and prays for our future daughter, whoever she might be, it breaks my heart to see so many children on the lists who will never know a family, never know a home. Never…
“To Love and Be Loved” or the Speech That Shook Our World
“But what does God say to us? He says: ‘Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you. I have carved you in the palm of my hand.’ We are carved in the palm of His hand; that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God from conception and is called by God to…