Practicing Gratitude. Celebrating Life.
One morning, I heard the now too familiar pitter patter of our 5 year old daughter’s feet as she tried to tip toe into our room to peek at her baby sister. Turning in the bed with my eyes opened just a teensy bit, I could see her quickly duck down and freeze, before slowly […]
Our sleepy girl I can’t look at this photo of our sleepy girl without tearing up. This was the moment she became my daughter and my heart broke off into 2 more pieces—a piece for my daughter and a piece for her first mother (birth mother) V. Now there are 6 pieces of my heart […]
I never expected to get as emotional as I did when we renewed our vows this past weekend. After 10 years and 5 children (how many times can I work that into a sentence? I love it!) I definitely felt married. Lucky for me my sweet husband insisted. He was raised Jewish and as a […]
I have a story to share. One that I hope to tell to bring Him glory and to bring you hope. Many of you have followed our adoption journey and gotten a taste of my ponderings, questions, and flat out impatience. Now, let me let you in on something God recently showed me. In my […]
Being a part of a community of faith involves being exposed to the life of Christ in others. Just as we are identified with Christ and his church in baptism, we now share life in Christ with one another. So to whom can you deliberately, intentionally, and sacrificially show the life of Christ this way?David […]