Scholarship for Adoptive Parents: Christian News Wire

Today I came across this article about a scholarship of $2000 to $5000 for families hoping to adopt a special-needs or other harder-to-place child.

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Waiting for the Light

This week I’ve been thinking about blissful ignorance — the kind of willful blindness we sometimes embrace in our humanness because seeing the truth is just too painful, or unexpected, or unsettling, or, well, icky. Among believers, it can become a kind of spiritual schitzophrenia. The kind that sees with blazing clarity the splinter in the [...]

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Bright Spot of the Day: Extraordinary Maaaaah-m!

My sister Chris sent me this YouTube spot today about a woman who adopted an abandoned horse, and was delivered from a life of isolation and alcoholism through the experience. It is eight minutes long . . . but I smiled through the whole thing. I hope you do, too.

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Wee Cook Wednesday: Apple Bread Pudding@ Scribbit

Did you go apple picking this weekend? We did … I’m up to my neck in Granny Smiths. Much to my family’s delight! (They suck up the peels like the ticket-taker at Chuck-E-Cheese. Delightful.) Today head on over to Scribbit, where Michelle has a delectable recipe for … drum roll, please … Caramel Apple Bread [...]

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You’re A Mom… “Go Fish!”

If you work all day, and you never get paid … you know who you are!  (Can’t get the thing to imbed properly. Check out the YouTube version here!)

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If God Loves Me, Why Do I Hurt So Much?

A busy week ahead … I wanted to run a couple of “classic” posts that have themes I think bear repeating. In this one, I address the question of why terrible things happen to us . . . and how the God who “makes all things work together for good” redeems even the darkest moments [...]

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Taking Time to … Breathe

Got a phone call today from school. “I think you need to pick Sarah up. Her eyes are puffy, she’s coughing, and says her neck hurts.” Turns out 16 kids in Sarah’s class are out with the flu. Sixteen out of 24. You do the math. By the time Sarah got home, her fever was [...]

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