When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even Ann’s mouse. Greetings sent out by email with care, In hopes that loved ones received them out there. The children with cousins and laptops in beds, With visions of dumplings and k-beef in heads. “Stonemama” in sweats and papa in ripped tees, Had…
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God Used Adoption to Save… All of Us
Original publication in Inheritance Magazine, May 2017 https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/god-used-adoption-to-save-all-of-us WHAT HAVE I DONE? I quietly asked myself this countless times the first year with our adopted child. Bonding was a challenge. When he desperately reached out to a strange man in the airport and I felt repeatedly rejected in this manner, I wondered, “What have I…