SYL: New Horizons for Children, Inc.

Dan and I have always talked about adoption, and it’s always been something that has tugged at our hearts….it’s one of those things that just won’t let us alone.  Last week, as I was reading one of my newsletters that I get, I noticed this organization listed, and so I clicked over to it, as [...]

Mom2Mom: A Mother’s Prayer

I shared this on my personal blog, Real Heart Prints, and I just thought with Mother’s Day yesterday, this is so fitting….listen and enjoy, moms!

What it Means to be Loved

I’d love to talk to Mark Schultz’s wife. I probably never will, seeing he’s famous and she probably won’t even get my message, but it was worth a try to contact her through his site.

It has nothing to do with him being a famous Christian singer. It has everything to do with her heart.

Three years [...]

There is more than One Way to be a Mother

I have more than three children. There is more than my earthly child and there is more than my two heavenly babies.

I have children of the heart.

I have the spiritual children that I have mentored throughout the years. I take such delight in these “daughters of mine”. What wonderful young women they have grown [...]

I’m Waiting for my Miracle(s)

In the past few weeks, I have surrendered daily–sometimes hourly–to the thought, that perhaps our infertility struggle and recent loss may mean that a child who needs a home and a Mama and Daddy may get that. Our lack of biological children may be the very chance waiting children need, in order to get a [...]

Sacrificial Love

I caught just the tiniest bit of understanding of our Daddy God’s love for us this past week. It’s a love that pours out and gives, even if it doesn’t receive in return.

I’ve been praying for a love like that but a love like that also scares me. After all, who wants to love and [...]