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Broken Burdens, Superheroes, and My No Matter What God (part 8)

R is officially home (again) and I’m excited but weary. Yesterday was hard and ended poorly- mainly me just hitting the proverbial end of my patience with all […]
Grace Within the Trauma (part 7)

I haven’t posted a huge update in awhile. I apologize- with R coming home and the holidays hitting right at the same time it’s been a bit crazy […]
Cookie Dough From God (part 5)

I had a hard day yesterday, a lot of spiritual attack and logistical meetings for all those previously mentioned balls I’m juggling. Nothing overtly bad happened, I think […]
Bridging The Gap (part 4)

foster parenting (verb): loving whomever is entrusted to you for however long they are entrusted: standing in the gap. risking the protection of one’s heart for the protection […]
In The Cleft (part 3)

I’ve been meditating a lot in these last few weeks about the power of God. As people have so graciously been checking on me and my family through […]
Meeting at the Door (part 2)

As I lay here early, watching the dark night turn gray with the morning I want to write about everything that’s happened in the last 12 hours. I’m […]
That First Night (part 1)

This is the first installment of a series of devos/blogs/posts that I made from the beginning of an extremely hard season for our family. It all started in […]
23 Pounds Emptier- The Day I Gave My Baby Away

I’m sitting here trying to process all my heart is feeling. Our 26 month foster son was just carried out of our team meeting with his mom- and […]
Let Me Explain

Happy 2020! First off, let’s address the massive elephant in the room… or in this case, the one that’s NOT there… in that, I’ve been totally and completely […]
The Cutting Edge

I’ve been struck very much lately by the power of words. Written, spoken, heard, passed on- words have such weight in our lives. Parenting foster children has shown […]

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