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Adoption Truth Part II: Where do babies come from?
Ariam likes to talk about where babies come from. Specific questions have included "is the belly button like an exit door?" and "how does the baby get in there?"She does a lot of thinking about...
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Adoption Truth Part III: Adopting Again
Let's get this show on the road, yes?I'm sorry for the long delay in posting. I was in Haiti. Again.Thank you for reading, commenting and reposting parts I and II. Your comments, even when questioning,...
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Adoption Truth Part IV: Pressed on every side
we were pressed on every sidefull of fear and troubled thoughtsfor good reason we carried heavy hearts... (Sara Groves)For good reason we carried heavy hearts.That is how I feel. Heavy.But also...
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Adoption Truths Part V: Sometimes things fall apart and you have to ask for help
Thursday evening update!! We have raised $6,000 and just have $2,500 left. Oh my gosh you guys. Thank you! Maybe we can make this happen by Monday morning?When our friends at Project Hopeful asked last...
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I came here to ask for your help and you have given of your time, love, prayers, "shares" on facebook, positive messages and resources.We are getting there! We made it to $6,000 from Monday-Friday of...
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Love Compels Us
"The situations that grow me the most are those in which I feel the most helpless, but in which love compels me to keep trying." ~ Greg Boyd*Last month I took Ariam to spend a week with AJ in Haiti....
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I want to thank you. THANK YOU. Each of you. For reading, for praying with us, for supporting us, and for donating. Most donations through Project Hopeful are kept anonymous. Since we can't thank you...
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Protect
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked...
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Thank you for your prayers last Friday. We all felt them!I know that a lot of loving friends and family are hoping for details but we have agreed that we will not respond to any inquiries about...
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For Alex
One year ago J's best friend died. In the way of things that are very sudden, it was totally unexpected and extremely painful.We wrestle because it feels so unnecessary. One minute he was the very...
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You say goodbye and I say hello
J and I just arrived home from spending a very extended period of time with AJ in Haiti.When I arrived in Haiti in July I had every intention of staying until I crossed through the immigration line in...
View ArticleAdoption Truth Part V: Eyes Wide Open
Last January I knew something was wrong. It's that prickly hair on the back of your neck feeling.Food turning to dust in our mouths.Waking up at 3am feeling intense dread, darkness, anxiety,...
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In my dreams
I can't live in Haiti with AJ. I should live in Haiti with AJ. But I just can't. Each time I try I'm pulled back to Denver by the force of Ariam missing me and vice versa. A nightly skype call just...
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I thought that this comment I received yesterday (see bottom of this post) was interesting enough, and well enough written, to respond to. I guess it is obvious from this comment that I haven't shared...
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Pause - 2013
Practicing with Daddy fall 2013I wish there were a pause button to prevent Ariam from growing any older.It is a funny thing living with a 4 year old. She has one foot in her babyhood still drinking...
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Champions
I found myself yearning throughout 2013 for forgiveness for stupid decisions, wrong choices and bad vision. My prayers were the stuff of groaning and apologizing and pleading with God. Pleading that He...
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Hope is the thing with feathersthat perches in the souland sings the tune without the wordsand never stops at all. Emily DickinsonOn the last day of September 2013 I peed on a stick in my aunt's...
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Talking Red Flags
Last summer a group of 14 families began the website Speak Out About Giving Hope Rescue Mission in an effort to counter the positive online promotion of Voice of the Orphan and Giving Hope Rescue...
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One month home
Alex has been home for one month and 3 days. We are cuddled into the yellow glider chair together as I write this.We spent a week in Haiti with Alex at our friends' house (the family he has been living...
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I used to talk about family preservation, reunification and keeping children out of orphanages at conferences.Then we lived 2013.Now I am thinking more about the actual how-to. Specifically in Haiti....
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Moving On
I think that this blog has come to its natural conclusion. Five months without posting is a good indicator that I'm done.When I began writing in 2009 it was for the purpose of making connections with...
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