Tonight, over two thousand years ago, He hung there on the cross, broken, His life pouring out for me, for the world.
I see Him there, amidst the darkness and the excruciating pain, crying out to His Father to sustain Him.
And I feel the incredible cost of redemption, unmerited and free.
He bought […] Read more…
The Substance Of Things Hoped For
As I have become increasingly involved in the adoption community, one thing has become blatantly apparent to me.
Adoption is a faith journey.
I have come to understand that there is one belief that those who adopt clearly espouse, there is one belief that separates those who do and those who never take that […] Read more…
Finding Him Here
Much of my life I have spent out of the hustle and bustle of society.
When I was eleven I became ill and was on home instruction until I graduated form high school.
My days were spent at home with my mother.
We sewed, we baked, we cooked.
I read and read and read,
And […] Read more…
Pastor Paul’s Page
Pastor Paul is the teaching pastor at a church in New Jersey.
But this blog isn’t about Pastor Paul. It’s not really about my life or our precious children, and it definitely isn’t about gardening, although I do pray that in some way I am a gardener.
It is about what God is doing in […] Read more…
Thankful
I woke early this morning.
David had come in with a nightmare around four, and then little Olivia climbed in on top of us too. While I was warm and toasty, I was terribly cramped and my mind was ablaze with all the wonderful things God has done in our lives, and all the things […] Read more…
Ivy Joy
We are on our way to Children’s Hospital with Evangeline, but I wanted to ask all of you to pray for sweet Ivy Joy.
Ivy is a precious tiny girl who has been home from China about nine months. She has a severe heart condition and has had several surgeries. Some of which have unfortunately […] Read more…
Medical Issues
I just got back from the wound care specialist’s office with Evangeline.
We had X-rays done on her foot last week and we just got the results today. There is significant degeneration of the bones in her right foot. The doctor is not sure what has caused the disintegration. It may be […] Read more…
Transparency
As far back as I can remember, I have been a writer. I wrote through my adolescent years of loneliness and illness. I wrote through the years of college and graduate school as I dealt with re-entry into the world of health and wholeness with a compromised body, and then through the years of my […] Read more…
Safari Day
Today we went to the Safari in the Panyu district with our group. It was a beautiful day, and both of the girls seemed to enjoy it.
Evangeline has made friends with a little four year old in our group and is such a little mother to her.
Our favorite was the panda exhibit. This […] Read more…
BELIEVE WITH ME!
I am finding it so hard to believe that we are really leaving for China in THREE days!
It seems like only yesterday that I began to seriously entertain the dream to adopt.
It was two years and nine months ago when I began to purposefully pray about adoption. Our daughter Victoria had been working on […] Read more…
