Poets and Saints Blog
How to Bear Fruit From Our Pain On a windblown day, in the middle of bean fields and October skies, we pick apples at a farm along a gravel path. The sun is warm and the trees loaded, their boughs weighed down by the countless orbs of red and green. My daughter eats three apples […] Read more…
My husband, Sam, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2005. He went through chemo. He lost all his hair. He got white and puffy and tired. And when it was over, we were given the good news that he was cancer free. We were already in the process of adoptiong from Korea when he was […] Read more…
It’s Fall 2008. I’m crunching numbers again for our second adoption. After working three jobs for our adoption, we are still short of our goal to complete the adoption process. The number is a discouraging amount–too much money to try and just tighten the budget a little more. I will have to find more work […] Read more…
This was a post I wrote in 2009 about our family’s adoption story. The first time I really considered adoption was before I even considered having my own children. At the time I was on the “5 year plan,” which means we “planned” to wait for 5 years and then try to have […] Read more…
On October 30, 2009, my son Silas was born. I will share the birth story another time–the story of how I became his mama and watched him make his beautiful entrance into the world which would forever change mine. Little did I know he had a genetic disease that would slowly emerge over the next […] Read more…