Tag: adoption
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Despre înțelepciunea maternă
Bunica avea o vorbă: daca nu îți cauți tu de lucru, îți dă dracu’ de furcă.
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Humble beginnings, low expectations
We were recently married and it dawned on me that any moment now, we could make a baby. Up until then I hadn’t given it much thought, as we weren’t sexually active before marriage, so the prospect was moot.
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That first year
I had mentioned before that I lost a lot of weight in those first months of parenting. Looking back I realize how hard it was. But we didn’t know it then. It was also wonderful. And the wonder and joy was all that we could see.
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Hope
A new chapter begins. Not just because school started and summer is officially over, but I feel it in my bones.
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Misinformation is a very perverse enemy.
And when people pine for times they haven’t lived through is dangerous.
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Walk by faith
I mentioned that through prayer I let go, while putting my heart who into it. It’s a paradox, I know.
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Prayer-2
I don’t pray enough. There are seasons and seasons. When I feel powerless, vulnerable actually, afraid, when I’m needy, that’s when prayer pours out of me like a mountain spring: fresh, abundant, unfiltered, unabridged.
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Cancer awareness month
Cancer makes people uncomfortable. Talking about cancer makes people uncomfortable. Yet at this point there are more people who know someone personally who fought with cancer than ever before.
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Vacation
I read this article interviewing successful adults, former foster care kids who never got adopted, yet they made it, due to their insight about studying hard as their exit ticket breaking the cycle of doom. They were all in a room brainstorming about how they can impact the next generations of orphans. They were all…
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The first lie
Do you remember when you told your first lie? Did you get caught? Did you get punished? Did you feel it was wrong to tell lies?
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The orchard
About a year ago we walked up this yard path, on a rainy day in a village, to met our daughter just as she was about to turn 3.