Thankfulness

I know I am a bit late in posting about thankfulness.  I truly meant to have something written up before Thanksgiving, but we had a houseful and I was BUSY last week!  It was a wonderful time spent with Kevin’s family (parents and siblings + kids – 21 in all!) and we enjoyed it immensely.
The [...]

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A Different Perspective

Our son died on July 31, 2006.  It seems like yesterday.  It seems like a million years.
I often think about the things I will never see Grant experience.  Especially as I watch his peers hit the milestones of life.  He was fourteen years and eight months old when he died.  He never learned to drive, [...]

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I Have a Shelter

I Have a Shelter
Words and Music by Steve & Vikki Cook and Bob Kauflin
I have a shelter in the storm
When troubles pour upon me
Though fears are rising like a flood
My soul can rest securely
O Jesus, I will hide in You
My place of peace and solace
No trial is deeper than Your love
That comforts all my sorrows
I [...]

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Quote – Charles Spurgeon

Deuteronomy 5:24  And you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.
This is a portion of Charles Spurgeon’s devotion for July 19, from Morning and Evening [...]

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Grief – In Progress

Events like Kira’s accident in April are always eye openers, aren’t they?  Those situations always get you thinking about serious things - or at least they should!
I sat in the ER holding Kira’s hand and talking to her, trying to get her to respond to me and wondering if we might lose her.  It turned out to be [...]

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Surviving a Trial

Of course, the first and most important way that we survive a trial is by leaning on the Lord – relying on His strength, clutching to His Word and what it teaches us about Him, and learning to have a mindset that sees things from an eternal perspective (God’s perspective!).
I was speaking with a friend [...]

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Almost a Year

The past eleven months has gone by so quickly.  I was recently reliving our call we received from the adoption agency telling us that our guardianship order had been signed and that we could make our travel plans.  The reason it all seemed so fresh and exciting is because some friends were preparing to travel [...]

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Abandonment and Grief

I have had some recent conversations that have made me realize that there are a lot of things about adoption that people who have not experienced it just don’t know.  This shouldn’t surprise me.  I was one of those people a year ago.
I have been asked if my girls had trauma in their lives before [...]

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A Lesson for the New Year

We were blessed to have had our friend, Jim Capaldo, give the sermon at our church this past Sunday.  Jim and his wife Kari are missionaries – lately of Siberia, but now in Alaska.
I loved his sermon, which was a great exposition of 1 Thessalonians 2:9-12.  The main idea of his sermon was our having a [...]

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Who Am I?

This afternoon during an emotional meltdown (because I was tired, sad, frustrated, tired), I was thinking about the different reactions I have to problems, first comparing myself to Chicken Little, “The sky is falling!”  At other times I can be the little Dutch boy frantically running around trying to plug up the hundred holes in the failing dam with pieces [...]

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