When a Christian thinks of love, often the following verses come to mind… “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does ...
Birth Mother Perspective: God With Us
Still, silent resets, rhythmic and imbedded—a cellular presetting on how to thrive. He made our body to remember His cadence.God is with us! When we are at rest and when we wrestle—He’s moving.Silent, seismic reminders,pre-wired to hear and exalt—we are prepared to worship. He made our spirits to ...
8 Truths To Remember While Navigating An Expecting/Birth Mother Relationship
Have you wondered how to navigate birth parents during matching/placement? Take note of a few important things to consider when pursuing an adoption relationship. No matter how good it seems, know that grief is ever-present and will reach a confusing peak at birth/placement time. For the ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Our Words Matter
In the untimely crisis mode of an unplanned pregnancy, the usage of valuable, comforting, validating, engaging and empowering language is critical. If words cultivate an experience, they can enhance a lifelong memory. If words have the ability to encourage or propel,they also have the vigor to ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Limits (A Poem)
Today CAC Adoption Advocate & Birth Mother Lori shares a beautiful poem she wrote entitled, "Limits." We pray it would minister to your heart and encourage you. Limits by Lori Dortch More often than notWe limit what we’ve gotWhat we experience andHow farStands in the wayOf ...
Birth Mother Perspective: The Flap
The Flap — written in 2014, while parenting my pre-teen girls. At this time, I was experiencing the loss of their youngest and purest form of childhood, and yet, it felt eerily familiar to the loss I’d experienced when placing my son. A similar, almost overwhelming, version of growth began brewing ...
Birth Mother Perspective: When Two Women Answer To Mom
When two women answer to the title mom, it is not a competition. Pride cannot push or repel.Insecurity shouldn’t build a wall.Fear cannot become rigid.Doubt shouldn’t prevent contact.Grief cannot speak negatively toward the other. The name mother is an honor all by itself, but when two or more are ...
Birth Mother Perspective: Grief
I once read a book that painted a picture of miscarried and lost fetal children as playing in heavenly fields of wildflowers and cascading waterfalls in a realm with their Creator: Jesus. And I read another book from the perspective of a father writing to his unborn, aborted, yet loved, children. He ...
