Pressing In

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Paradox of Love

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A Time to Mourn

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Impatiently Waiting

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Faith

You Are Loved

November 23, 2019

To my dearest friend, If there’s a symphony I can play to saturate your mind in, it would be an endless “you are loved–you are loved” on a forever repeated loop. Perhaps your current circumstances are telling you: ‘that’s a lie’. Thoughts that started small and faint stating how forgotten, unseen, or neglected you are, […]

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Adoption | Faith | Motherhood

Pressing In

May 2, 2017

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.- Proverbs 27: 17   I can recall many painful days when this was true in our home. It was hard to see the sharp, serrated corners of my heart, until they encounter another. It was easier to point out and see the barbed, hardened heart of my […]

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Adoption | Motherhood

Paradox of Love

April 14, 2017

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love”- Mother Teresa   From the beginning of our adoption process, I was so fearful of the idea of having to “share” my child, that an open adoption -of any sort- terrified me. Whether it […]

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A Time to Mourn

September 20, 2016

Coming home after spending four unexpected months in Uganda was a lot like plunging into freezing water. I anticipated it to go one way, and as you might have guessed, it went another. None of those underlying things that needed to be worked on and dealt with in my heart and my children’s went away […]

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Impatiently Waiting

April 1, 2016

Four weeks of living in Uganda, we found ourselves still awaiting our verbal ruling for legal guardianship. We were certain it would only be a matter of time, as Igor and I (legally) had a best-case scenario, (more like a dream!) in which we should technically be back home as a family, from start to […]

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New Beginnings

December 7, 2015

It took me a really long time to get the courage to write this post. I’ve been staring at my empty computer screen for hours. You see, the relationship I have with my children today, (especially with my daughter), is incomparable to the bleak beginning we shared. Our days together are filled with lots of […]

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Broken faithfulness

November 3, 2015

When faithfulness looks and feels like brokenness and failure it is hard to talk about it. Especially when there is nothing glamorous or exciting to share. Showing up and loving your children should be nothing extraordinary; yet for me, it was. When people ask what Uganda was like, I usually draw a blank. How much […]

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Devotionals

A love That Pours

July 23, 2015

{“When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.  As she stood behind […]

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Devotionals

Fear of Change

June 25, 2015

Fear is a funny thing. It doesn’t have to be rational. It can come virtually out of nowhere, for any reason with all intensities. It has no prejudice towards age, accepting both men and women equally. For some of us, it is our master. Unknowingly, or willingly, we let it control the course of our […]

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