I was twelve years old when my parents came back from their first trip to China — a trip my father had been planning for years as he studied Mandarin in college and became fluent. I still remember sitting on the living room floor while my parents projected slide after slide onto the wall: the Yangzi ...
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Guarding Your Heart While Presenting
You get that email or phone call about a potential adoption situation and immediately your heart races. Maybe this is it?! Maybe this is our baby? You talk with your spouse, you pray, and decide to jump forward with both feet. I remember presenting to our first situation. ...
Truth to Cling to in the Wait
No doubt one of the hardest parts of the adoption journey is the wait. Once the paperwork is all filled out, your profile is created, and the nursery is decorated, the stillness of the wait can be agonizing. Maybe you're not in the wait of adoption. Maybe you're waiting for a spouse, or healing in ...
The Wait Is Never Wasted
Are you waiting on an answer from God about when/if to begin the adoption process? Are you knee deep in paperwork and home study interviews and you feel like it's never going to end? Are you in the very middle of the journey and it feels like an expectant mother is never going to choose your family? ...
Adoption Story: Nate + Erin
I haven't met a hopeful adoptive family yet that assumes the road to adoption will be an easy one. But often, families have a hard time knowing just how their personal story to grow their family will be written. Nate and Erin had no idea what God had for them in the years they pursued adoption, but ...
A Letter To The Hopeful Adoptive Family
Dear Hopeful Adoptive Family, I can't imagine everything you must be thinking and feeling right now. And I'm so very sorry your loss. I wish there were perfect words I could formulate into existence that would erase your pain, but I'm not na?ve in this arena. I've walked with other families through ...
