Brokenness. It’s a word I have carried in my chest for several years now. It’s a word I see when I look in the mirror and at the world around me. Sometimes it is all I can see. I close my eyes and imagine shattered pottery, the jagged edges slicing…
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Tearing off the Roof
Our kids spend a large portion of their days dancing and singing (read: screaming) along to music playing on YouTube. Something about watching singers on TV makes them feel like they are at, or maybe they are, a fun concert. Their favorites are some phenomenal worship songs. Lyrics that have…
The Basics of Loving a Traumatized Child
Childhood and trauma is a sobering paring of words. Events painful enough to cause a wound to the mind and nervous system can rock the strongest adult, but how much more devastating trauma is to a developing child! Statistically, almost every adult in the United States is in some sort…
Adoption Memories – 6 months home 2015
Sanctification Hello, friends! Tomorrow will mark 6 months since Gotcha Day for Little Man! This is the marker I have been waiting for. Half a year. We have survived half a year. Most experts say by six to twelve months home, we should be settling into some kind of “normal.”…
