Today we celebrate the number fifty. And, boy, has it been a wild ride getting here! In two totally different ways.

Adoption is a beautiful experience. The acceptance of one human being into the lives of others for shared relationship, safety and love is remarkable. The story is so beautiful in fact, that it almost makes the darker, heavier side of the adoption journey invisible to all but those who experience it first hand.

Jason Johnson on how foster care has shifted his view of God’s LOVE

You’ve heard the saying “there are some things you can’t unsee”. Those can be good things that leave an indelible mark, or not so good… There’s no doubt that you can not unsee the plight of children in foster care once you’ve seen behind the curtain of the system.

The human condition includes a healthy dose of longing to belong. This condition is magnified in the case of children from chaotic backgrounds. Trauma, abuse, neglect, and absence of biological connection can result in children going to extreme measures to find a place to fit in.

Helping my child with school work can and has often left me feeling like a big fat failure! I am a teacher with plenty of experience teaching young children. I would even consider myself a really good teacher.

Helping my child with school work can and has often left me feeling like a big fat failure! I am a teacher with plenty of experience teaching young children. I would even consider myself a really good teacher.

“The real joy in life is helping someone else” is the mantra of George Lindahl. He has experienced business and financial success to a degree that few ever achieve and now boils his definition of success down to that one simple statement.”

Parenting can be a lot like a game of tag. We run around doing all the things that parents do and every once in a while, right in the middle of our interactions with our children, we find ourselves needing a place to breathe deep, collect our thoughts, and recognize our emotions.

I’ve alway said my children are my teachers and the more I look for the ways they are teaching me, the more I notice them…I also notice that when there is something for me to learn or embrace I will begin to see it everywhere.