With Great Joy

This is the last day of November, so this series on adoption/foster care is officially done. (Don't miss my husband's post yesterd...

Dear readers~ my favorite person on this earth (my husband!) wrote today's post. (I just added the photos.) * * * This blogging thing i...

{continuing on in gratitude from my initial One Thousand Gifts list } 1286~ hearing Ella sing worship songs to the girls at bedtime each nig...

Being an adoptive mother- especially one with children who do not resemble me- has made me a sort of magnet for people everywhere who want t...

But then it comes over me, even while I'm panicking-- that inexplicable, doesn't-make-sense-at-the-time, peace-that-passes-understan...

David Platt, author of this amazing book , which I blogged about here , is the pastor of a church in Alabama. I listen to his sermons onlin...

"One little guy we had came into the foster system from the hospital. This two-year-old boy had a very young mom who had made a poor ch...