Musings of a mother of many
I have welcomed you throughout the years to share in the joys and struggles of our family as our hearts were broken for the fatherless several years ago, and we brought our two daughters home from China at the age of thirteen. We have now been home with our girls for almost nearly eight years, […] Read more…
The ocean breeze blows cool across the boards, blankets the rides with a moist dew and caresses my skin with its touch. It tickles my flesh and knocks at the fabric that covers my face. I long to suck it in, in deep satisfying breaths, to feel it fresh and alive within my lungs, to […] Read more…
Sometimes there is nothing good amidst the catastrophies of this world. They are just atrocious, dreadful, horrifying, ghastly, realities in our lives. Read more…
“This morning the sun rises over the monster on the loose too, a giant hellion that’s waging war on the world, taking cities by storm, aiming for the most populated but stamping on every one in its path, wreaking its havoc on mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, on grandparents and children and stealing the most fragile, the ones who most deserve protection and care.” Read more…
Our world is brought to a standstill. Fear ripples through the hearts of men and women and children like the endless reverberations of a stone tossed in a great sea. Pain and sorrow and loss grip all of us in the common bond of COVID 19.
Lives will be lost. Jobs will be lost. People will hurt and grieve and brake. Senior college students are miss their entire spring semesters, their graduations. Long awaited vacations, weddings, funerals have been canceled. Children reel from the effects of this world spinning quickly out of anything that feels familiar. Parents are working at home or even worse, not working at all. The world’s economy dangles by a thread and seems as if it can’t possibly hold on.
We wait for the monster on the lose, surely to arrive in our lives in some way any day now. Read more…
Every single day, I feel a gnawing, a craving to come here to this tiny site in cyberspace, to this blank spot where words flow easily, where they tumble out tangled and tousled from that quiet, aching, yearning, hoping space inside of me and somehow become ordered linear thoughts.
It’s here where my words find their […] Read more…
Have you arrived home with your newly adopted child and found the road ahead too difficult to walk? Have you felt alone in your lack of ability to meet the needs of your child? Have you struggled to find the warm fuzzy feelings you so desperately wanted to feel for your child? Have you hidden […] Read more…
I wake to the sound of the roosters crowing, just as the sun’s rays begin to shed their distant glow in the sky beyond the horizon. Morning lurks just beyond the earth’s edge, brimming with light and life and the gift of a new day.
But that’s not what I see. I see black. Night still […] Read more…
This has been my home screen for the last few months.
There you are, smiling back at me, in the glaring realty of all your soon to be twenty one years. I see you, grown and lovely, racing head on into all the future holds for you. I see those big eyes looking back at me […] Read more…
Dear Heavenly Father,
I want to write something lovely and true, something beautiful and real and gifted that resonates with the masses, or even with just one – with that one person you want me to write for. My mind is jumbled and anxious. The pain feels like a balloon that inflates throughout the day until […] Read more…
